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I paint icons as well as secular works. I have exhibited widely in my homeland and abroad. I have painted many portable icons and frescoes in churches and other holy places. My most important commissions include: Monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos, St George Cathedral, Beirut, Lebanon, Monastery of the Mother of God, Voiotia, Greece, Monastery of St. Upon my return to Athens in 1990 I continued my studies in painting and engraving under Fotis Mastichiadis. Petersburg, Russia, Visiting Professor, 2008 University of South Carolina, Arts Department, Columbia, SC, Visiting Professor, 2011 and 2012 University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology and Institute for Church Life, 2013.ĭuring the 1980s I worked by the side of the Cypriot master iconographer, Fr Symeon Symeou. I also undertook courses in painting technique at The School of Fine Arts at The Museum of Boston from 1987–1989. Visiting Positions: Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music, Visiting Professor, June 2004-2007 Art and Design University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Visiting Professor, 2005 School of Theology, Department of Fine Art and Conservation, Bucharest, Romania, Visiting Professor, 2006 and 2007 Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, School of Theology, Boston, MA, Visiting Professor, 2006 South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, Odessa, Ukraine, Visiting Professor, 2006 Orthodox Institute of Theology and Sacred Arts, St. In addition to lecturing and writing on Byzantine iconography at the academic level, I also taught the art of icon painting. I was teaching principally at the Department of Theology at the University of Athens , but in 2012 I retired. In 1991 I was awarded my Doctorate in Theology at the University of Athens (1991), while in 2003 I was appointed to the post of Lecturer at the same university and later (2008) of Assistant Professor of Iconography at the same University, Faculty of Theology. Born in Greece in 1956 I read theology at the University of Athens. I pursued my studies at the postgraduate level at Holy Cross Theological School in Boston, USA , where I specialized in both theology and the aesthetics of Byzantine painting, gaining an MA in theology.