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==Life==
He was born Hierotheos Georgios S. Vlachos in Ioannina, Epirus, Greece, in 1945 and graduated from the theological school of the University of Thessaloniki. He took the monastic name Hierotheos and has been a [[priest]] since 1971. He served at the [[Archbishop]]'s House of Offices in Athens, as a preacher and Youth Director. He was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] [[bishop]] on [[July 20]], 1995, and elected Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlasios in the same year.
He taught Greek for several semesters and gave lectures on Orthodox [[ethics]] to the students of the [[St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology (Tripoli, Lebanon)|St. John of Damascus Theological School]] at the University of the Patriarchate of Antioch, in northern Lebanon.
