Modern Hellenic Orthodoxy Group
Chairs:
Nikolaos Asproulis, Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Volos, Greece)
Nikolaos Asproulis is currently Deputy Director (2017- today) of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Volos, Greece, and Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece. He graduated in Theology (University of Athens, 1997). He obtained MTh (2007) and PhD degrees (2016) in Theology at Hellenic Open University. Asproulis’ research focuses on the history and development of contemporary Orthodox theology (20st – 21st century), a field in which he approached several research avenues. He has authored numerous articles, essays and chapters in collective volumes on systematic theology, ecclesiology, political theology, ecotheology, methodology, and hermeneutics. During his doctoral research, he specialized in the study of contemporary Orthodox theology with a special focus on the neo-patristic movement and its main figures (Florovsky and Zizioulas). Asproulis was an academic associate of the official scholarly theological journal of the Orthodox Church of Greece, Theologia (2009-2016). He is currently an official representative of the Church of Greece in CEC thematic group on Economic and Ecological Justice (2017-8, 2019-2023), Coordinator of the Network of Ecumenical Learning in Eastern and Central Europe (Nelcee) and WP5 Volos Academy Team member of RESILIENCE. His last publications include: (Co-edited with John Chryssavgis) Priests of Creation: John Zizioulas on Discerning an Ecological Ethos (T&T Clark, London-New York).
Svetoslav Ribolov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Dr. Svetoslav Ribolov is an Associate Professor of Greek Patristics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.” He completed degrees in Classical Philology and Theology at the same university (1992–2000) and pursued further specialization in the Master’s program at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001–2003). He has worked as a teacher of Ancient Greek at the National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures in Sofia and at the Sofia Theological Seminary “St. John of Rila” (1999–2001), as well as an editor at the Synodal Publishing House of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (2004–2005). Since 2005, he has been teaching at Sofia University in the fields of Patristics and Dogmatic Theology. In 2010, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “Soteriological Presuppositions of the Christology of Theodore of Mopsuestia.” In 2014, he was promoted to the academic rank of Associate Professor of Greek Patristics. He has undertaken specializations at the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies at Regensburg (2005, 2011), the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2012), and the California State University, Santa Barbara (2015). Since 2014, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the periodical journal of the Faculty of Theology in Sofia, Forum Theologicum Sardicense. He is the author of three books in the field of Greek Patristics, one book on contemporary dogmatic issues in modern Greek theology, and two textbooks—one on Patristics and one on contemporary Orthodox theology.
Steering Committee:
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Kaminis, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Rev. Dr. Basil Gavrilovic, Sts Mardarije and Sebastian Institute (California, USA)
Dr. Lidiya Lozova, Independent Researcher (Lviv, Ukraine)
