His Eminence, Gerontios, Met ropolitan of Lamia, according to the world, Georgios Koukoulis, was born in 1971 in Lamia. Completing his studies, he received the degree of Electrologist-Electronics of the E.H.E. He studies the sacred science of Theology at the University of Athens and at the same time attends courses on Greek Culture at the School of Humanities of the Hellenic University. He holds a degree in Byzantine Music. In 1992, he became a monk in the holy monastery of Saint Athanasios of Meteorite under His Eminence Metropolitan Kallinikos of Lamia. He was ordained deacon in 1993 and presbyter in 1995 by the same Metropolitan. In 2005, he became an Archimandrite. In 2013 he was appointed by the Holy Synod Chancellor of the Holy Metropolis of Lamia and representative of the previous Metropolitan in the Holy Synod. In 2016, he was elected and ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Thermopylae by His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Makarios and the Holy Synod. On the 21st of March 2017, he was elected Metropolitan of Lamia.

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