ALEXANDROS KATSIARAS

Editorial Director of the Journal Θεολογία/Theologia, 2016-

Alexandros Katsiaras studied Theology, Philology, and Counseling Psychology. He taught as a Theology professor in Secondary Education. He served as Director of the “Pantokrator” Foundation (1983–1986). From 1995 to 2008, he served as Director of the newly established Office for Youth and Catechesis of the Holy Metropolis of Peristerion, where he implemented, among other initiatives, a training seminar for priests, a seminar on the Orthodox faith and human relationships for prospective catechists, schools for parents, as well as the organization of workshops for teachers of all specialties and conferences for high school students. At the same time, he conceived the idea of publishing the bimonthly theological and pedagogical journal Diavasis of the Holy Metropolis of Peristerion, for which he served as Director for many years.

From 2008 until today, he has been the Director of the Radio Station of the Church of Greece, as well as of the priests’ magazine Ephēmerios.

Since 2016, he has been the Editorial Director of the Church of Greece’s academic journal Theologia and of the bulletin Ecclēsia.

He has also written numerous studies and articles of theological, pedagogical, and psychological content. He co-authored the book When God Dies with Maro Vamvounaki, Harmos Publications, Athens 2008 (1st ed. Domos, Athens 2003).

In October 2023, in Athens, he served as Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the International Academic Conference on the Centenary of the journal Theologia, titled: “Orthodox Theology in via in the ‘Dematerialized Reality’ of Late Modernity”, organized by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.

From 29 September to 1 October 2025, he organized in Thessaloniki the 2nd International Academic Conference of the journal Theologia, titled: “Orthodox Theology and the ‘Ontology’ of Technology: Anthropological, Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural Consequences”, also organized by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.