Apostolado, hacer misión tras los pasos de Cristo “Mission in Christ’s Way”

Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos

Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos was born in Greece on November 4, 1929. He entered the priesthood in 1960, and ascended to the episcopate in 1972. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Religions at the University of Athens, because he has a vast and deep knowledge of most of the religious expressions in the history of mankind, and functioned as Dean of the Faculty of Theology. He is an Honorary Member of the Academy of Athens, Honorary Senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Former President of the World Council of Churches, Vice Moderator of the Conference of European Churches, Vice President of Religions for Peace and Honorary Doctor of 19 universities. He is known as one of the main protagonists of the revival of the Orthodox mission in Africa, and worked as a missionary in that continent for more than a decade. From 1992 he was responsible for restoring and rebuilding from its foundations the Autocephalus Orthodox Church of Albania, a country that suffered the most extreme atheist communist regime of the twentieth century (1967-1990). His missionary work there has been, to this day, immensely fruitful. He is the author of numerous publications and one of the greatest contemporary spokesmen of the Orthodox Church before several inter-Christian and inter-religious organizations.