Hierotheos Vlachos ( el, Ιερόθεος Βλάχος; born Georgios Vlachos, el, Γεώργιος Βλάχος, 1945) is a Greek

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and

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Biography

He was born in 1945 in

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.Biographical note in Pemptousia Orthodox Theology magazine
/ref> He graduated from the Theological School of the

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and was ordained

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in 1972 and

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in 1995. His diocese is the Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios. His book ''The Person in the Orthodox Tradition'' was awarded the first prize for the "top theological work written in Greece in 1991–96" by the Academy of Athens.Biographical note in the National Greek Book Centre profile

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Living people Greek theologians 20th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops 21st-century Eastern Orthodox bishops Eastern Orthodox theologians People from Ioannina Bishops of Nafpaktos 1945 births Aristotle University of Thessaloniki alumni {{Theologian-stub