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His Eminence '''Vasilios (Kolokas) of Elassona''', also '''Basil of Elasson''', is the [[Metropolitan]] of the Metropolis of Elassona under the administration of the [[Church of Greece]]. The [[Metropolis of Elassona]] is a metropolis in the New Lands of Greece, under the [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]]. [http://www.patriarchate.org/patriarchate/jurisdiction/administration/dioceses/new-lands]. He has served as the ruling hierarch of the metropolis since 1995.
==Life==
Metr. Vasilios was born in 1953 in Ioannina in Epirus in northwestern Greece. He graduated from the Rizariou Ecclesiastical School before continuing his education in religion in [[Thessalonica]]. Entering the [[Holy Orders]], he was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] in 1975. In 1979, he was ordained to the [[priest]]hood. Father Vasilios served as [[abbot]] of the Monastery of St. Theodora in Thessalonica.
Fr. Vasilios was elected to the [[episcopate]] in 1995 and was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] on [[July 21]], 1995 as Metropolitan of the Metropolis of Elassona.
==Sources==
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/English/EnDioceses/Elassona.html Holy Metropolis of Elassona]
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/Dioceses/dioceses.asp?mitra_id=16 Holy Metropolis of Elassona] In Greek
[[Category Bishops]]
[[Category Bishops of Elassona]]
[[Category: 20th-21st-century bishops]]
==Life==
Metr. Vasilios was born in 1953 in Ioannina in Epirus in northwestern Greece. He graduated from the Rizariou Ecclesiastical School before continuing his education in religion in [[Thessalonica]]. Entering the [[Holy Orders]], he was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] in 1975. In 1979, he was ordained to the [[priest]]hood. Father Vasilios served as [[abbot]] of the Monastery of St. Theodora in Thessalonica.
Fr. Vasilios was elected to the [[episcopate]] in 1995 and was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] on [[July 21]], 1995 as Metropolitan of the Metropolis of Elassona.
==Sources==
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/English/EnDioceses/Elassona.html Holy Metropolis of Elassona]
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/Dioceses/dioceses.asp?mitra_id=16 Holy Metropolis of Elassona] In Greek
[[Category Bishops]]
[[Category Bishops of Elassona]]
[[Category: 20th-21st-century bishops]]
