Ieronymos II of Athens
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His Beatitude Ieronymos II |
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| Archbishop of Athens | |
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| Native name | Ιερώνυμος B΄ |
| Installed | 7 February 2008 |
| Predecessor | Christodoulos |
| Other posts | Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia (1981–2008) |
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| Ordination | 1967 |
| Consecration | 1981 |
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| Birth name | Ioannis Liapis |
| Born |
10 March 1936 Oinofyta, Boeotia, Greece |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Profession | Theologian |
| Alma mater |
University of Athens University of Graz University of Regensburg University of Munich |
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Styles of Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens |
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| Reference style | His Beatitude |
| Spoken style | Your Beatitude, Déspota |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
Ieronymos II (born March 10, 1936, Greek: Ιερώνυμος B', Ierōnymos; Latin: Hieronymus II, English: Jerome II) is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.
He was born Ioannis Liapis (Greek: Ιωάννης Λιάπης, Iōánnēs Liápēs) in Oinofyta, Boeotia. He is an Arvanite.
Ieronymos holds degrees in archaeology, Byzantine studies, and theology from the University of Athens. He has undertaken postgraduate studies at the University of Graz, the University of Regensburg and the University of Munich. Following a stint as lector in Christian archaeology at the Athens Archaeological Society under professor Anastasios Orlandos, he taught as a philologist in Lycée Léonin and he was ordained deacon and then presbyter in the Orthodox Church in 1967.
Ieronymos served as Protosyncellus of the Metropolis of Thebes and Livadeia, abbot of the monasteries of the Transfiguration of Sagmata and Hosios Loukas, and Secretary, later Archsecretary, of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. In 1981 he was elected Metropolitan Bishop of Thebes and Levadeia. In addition to his pastoral ministry, Ieronymos has been pursuing his work on Christian archaeology and has published two major textbooks: "Medieval Monuments of Euboea" (1970), and "Christian Boeotia" (2006). In 1998, he unsuccessfully contested the election to the throne of the archbishopric of Athens.
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