Ieronymos II of Athens

His Beatitude Ieronymos II
Archbishop of Athens
Native name	Ιερώνυμος B΄
Church	Church of Greece
See	Athens
Installed	7 February 2008
Predecessor	Christodoulos
Other post(s)	Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia (1981–2008)
Orders
Ordination	10 December 1967
Consecration	4 October 1981
Personal details
Born	Ioannis Liapis (1938-03-10) 10 March 1938 (age 86) Oinofyta, Boeotia, Kingdom of Greece
Nationality	Greek
Denomination	Greek Orthodoxy
Profession	Theologian
Alma mater	University of Athens University of Graz University of Regensburg University of Munich
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Ieronymos II (Greek: Ιερώνυμος B’, romanized: Ierōnymos II, pronounced [ieˈronimos]; born 10 March 1938) is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.^[1]

Ieronymos served as Protosyncellus of the Metropolis of Thebes and Livadeia, abbot of the monasteries of the Transfiguration of Sagmata and Hosios Loukas, and Secretary, later Archsecretary, of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. In 1981 he was elected Metropolitan Bishop of Thebes and Levadeia. He published two major textbooks: "Medieval Monuments of Euboea" (1970), and "Christian Boeotia" (2006).

On 7 February 2008, Ieronymos was elected the new Archbishop of Athens and All Greece by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece,^[2] He formally took office on 16 February 2008.