April 9-12, 2025
Delphi Economic Forum X
Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology
University Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens, Greece
Rev. Vasileios Thermos, M.D., Ph.D., was born in 1957 at Lefkada, Greece. He is a graduate of the Medical School and of the Theological School of Athens University. He also holds a PhD in Pastoral Psychology from the Theological School of Athens University. He was specialized in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry which he practiced until 2024. In 1986 and 1987 he was ordained and served at the diocese of Viotia. He has been engaged into training programs for clergy in Greece, Cyprus, USA.
In 1996-97 he was 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 2014 he worked for 3 months as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute of Medical Humanities of the Medical School of Texas University on a project about homosexuality and contemporary gender theories. He has also conducted a research on clergy health and burnout.
From 2013 until 2024 he taught Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology in the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens. He has written numerous books and articles in Greek; some of them have been translated into English, French, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish. He is the editor of a journal in Greek (Psyches dromoi: Ways of the Soul). In 2017-18 his essay The Paradox of Mental Health Care and Spirituality: The Culture of Extreme Individualism as a Mediator was awarded the prize on the “Culture, Care, and Spirituality” contest by the Jean-Marc Fischer Foundation in Switzerland.
Two master theses have appeared about his overall work.
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