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Orthodox Observer - April 5, 1997

Fourlas Named Chief Secretary

NEW YORK — His Eminence Archbishop Spyridon has announced the appointment of Dr. Athanasios A. Fourlas as Chief Secretary to the office of the Archbishop, effective immediately.

A native of Lamia, Greece, Dr. Fourlas is a 1964 graduate of the Patriarchal Theological School of Halki (Constantinople), from which he also received a Distinction in Orthodox Christian Theology. In 1969 he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Muenster, Germany, in Byzantine Studies.

He served for one year as scientific assistant at the "Institutum Judaism Delitzschianum" before returning to Greece in 1970 to fulfill his military obligation. In 1973 he returned to Germany, serving for 10 years as instructor of Medieval Greek Text and History at the University of Muenster.

Contemporarily, for two years he served as assistant editor of the "Orthodoxies Forum" published by the Orthodox Theological Institute of the University of Munich.

Since 1988, Dr. Fourlas has directed a publishing firm in Athens, primarily of works of classic Greek and Latin authors.

[ Orthodox Observer - Vol. 62, No. 1126 - April 5, 1997 - p. 3 ]