AHOS Faculty Member Dr. Georgios Panagopoulos Elected Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The Antiochian House of Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Georgios Panagopoulos, a member of its teaching faculty, has been elected as Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Culture in the Department of Theology of the School of Theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
This election constitutes a significant academic distinction, recognizing Dr. Panagopoulos’s longstanding scholarly contribution to Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, as well as his sustained commitment to theological education and research. His teaching in the PhD program of AHOS has further enriched the institution’s academic mission and its engagement with the doctrinal tradition of the Orthodox Church.
Through his teaching and extensive scholarly work, Dr. Panagopoulos has explored the historical development, philosophical foundations, and contemporary significance of Orthodox Christian doctrine. His research brings the patristic and dogmatic tradition into a productive dialogue with philosophy, cultural history, Western theological thought, and the intellectual challenges of modernity.
His publications address a broad range of subjects, including the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and patristic theology, the theology of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orthodox ecclesiology, hesychasm, the history of Western theology, Russian theological thought, the Philokalic tradition, and the development of Orthodox theology in modern Greece. By combining historical and philological research with systematic theological reflection, he has contributed meaningfully to the contemporary interpretation of the Orthodox theological tradition.
Dr. Panagopoulos’s academic work in Greece and internationally has established him as a distinguished scholar in the fields of Orthodox Dogmatics, Patristic Theology, and the history of Christian thought. His election also underscores the enduring relevance of Orthodox theology in the study of culture and in the wider academic examination of the relationship between Christian faith, philosophical inquiry, and contemporary society.
The Antiochian House of Studies warmly congratulates Dr. Panagopoulos on this important academic achievement and gives thanks for his continued contribution to its doctoral program and broader academic mission.
Biographical Note
Dr. Georgios D. Panagopoulos was born in 1966. He studied Law at the School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, from which he received his bachelor’s degree in 1988. He subsequently studied Theology at the Department of Theology of the same University, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1994.
He pursued postgraduate studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Byzantine political and ecclesiastical history, Byzantine literature, and Orthodox theology. He also participated in postgraduate theological programs at the Inter-Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy, Geneva, and undertook research and advanced study in Canon Law at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.
Dr. Panagopoulos holds a PhD in Theology from the Department of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His doctoral dissertation, entitled The Philosophy of Stoicism and the Theology of St. Basil the Great, examined the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and Christian theology in the fourth century.
From 2010 to 2022, he taught at the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Ioannina, offering courses in Orthodox Dogmatics, the history of Orthodox and Western theology, Christian ethics, bioethics, Christian philosophy, and inter-Christian and interreligious dialogue. Since 2022, he has served as Professor of Dogmatics of the Orthodox Church at the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens. He has also taught at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and has delivered lectures as an invited professor at the University of Saint Petersburg.
Dr. Panagopoulos is the author of numerous monographs, scholarly articles, book chapters, translations, and critical studies published in Greek, German, English, Italian, and other languages. He serves on the editorial and reviewer boards of international theological journals and is a member of several academic associations, including the International Association of Orthodox Dogmatic Theologians and the British Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. At the Antiochian House of Studies, he teaches Dogmatic Theology in the institution’s PhD program.
