Thermos Fr. Vassilios

Father Vassilios Thermos was born in Lefkada in 1957 and studied Medicine and Theology at the University of Athens. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He holds a doctorate from the School of Theology of the University of Athens and an assistant professor of Pastoral Studies at the Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens. He has been retrained as a "Visiting Scholar" at Harvard University, Boston University, Boston College, and Andover Newton. His books and articles have been translated into English, French, Russian, Romanian. A master's thesis has been prepared for his entire work at the Faculty of Theology of Balamand University in Lebanon. His main interests are the pastoral presence of the Church, religiosity in relation to personality, the psychology and psychopathology of religious experience and religious behavior, the psychology of the clergy and the ecclesiastical organization, the psychology of the religious dimension of culture, the psychoanalytic dialogue and theology, liturgical issues etc. He is involved in the training of clergy and other members of the Church (Greece, America, Finland), while he also teaches at the Theological Academy of the Orthodox Church of Albania. He serves in the Holy Metropolis of Thebes and Levadeia.