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Ieronymos II

Greek archbishop
Also known as: Ioannis Liapis
Written by
Michael Frassetto
Independent scholar and adjunct instructor of history at the University of Delaware, Newark. Author of Heretic Lives and others.
Michael Frassetto
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Ieronymos II (born 1938, Oinofyta, Greece) is the archbishop of Athens and all Greece (from 2008) and head of the Orthodox Church of Greece. Liapis first pursued an academic career. He earned degrees in theology and philosophy from the University of Athens and did postgraduate work in Austria and Germany. He was an assistant to the head of the Archeological Society of Athens and taught in high schools in Athens and its suburbs. He was...

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