Bishop Chrysostomos Savvatos (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Σαββάτος) born in the Athens

Athens

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 suburb of Peristeri

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 in 1961, is a theologian in the Greek Orthodox Church

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 and a professor in the Theology Faculty of the University of Athens. He has earned degrees from Rome and Strasbourg. In mid 2007 he was ordained as the metropolitan bishop

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 of Messenia

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but continues also to fulfil the obligations of his university chair. Earlier in 2008 he took part in the Ravenna conversation of the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue Commission, of which he has been for some time a member.