Father Vasileios Thermos

Rev. Vasileios Thermos, M.D., Ph.D. studied at the Medical School of Athens University and the Theological School. He was specialized in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry which he still practices in Athens. In 1986 he was ordained and keeps serving at the diocese of Viotia. He has been engaged into training programs for clergy in Greece, Cyprus, and the USA. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School; he took classes also in Harvard School of Arts and Humanities, Boston College, Boston University, Andover Newton Theological School. In 1997 he received his PhD in Pastoral Psychology from the Theological School of Athens University. In 2014 he worked for 3 months as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute of Medical Humanities of the Medical School of Texas University. He has also conducted a research on clergy health and burnout. He has written numerous books and articles in Greek and is the editor of a journal in Greek (Psyches dromoi: Ways of the Soul). He has been a member of scientific committees organizing conferences on the relationship between theology and psychiatry/psychology. He has also given thousands of lectures to seminars, parents groups, clergy assemblies, camps, high schools, radio and TV etc. Fr. Vasileios was a Visiting Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Psychology of Religion in the Theological Academy of the Orthodox Church of Albania. He taught Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology in the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens for 11 years and retired in 2024.