Athanasios Tziertzis
Special Laboratory Teaching Staff in the School of Theology
Athanasios Sot. Tziertzis was born in 1973 in Alexandroupoli. He holds degrees from:
(a) the Department of Philology (with a specialization in Classical Studies), from which he also obtained his postgraduate diploma, working on a hagiographical text of historical-theological interest by a prominent intellectual of the 12th century; and
(b) the Department of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on a topic in 19th-century Church History related to the Ecumenical Patriarch Joachim III the Magnificent.
He worked for several years in Public Secondary Education (both General and Ecclesiastical), and since 2012 he served as a seconded teacher in the Department of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki until his transfer in 2017 to the same Department as Special Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP), specifically in the Sector of Church History, Christian Literature, Archaeology, and Art.
Since then, he has mainly taught courses in Church History:
(a) elective courses, such as “The Great Holy Church of Christ: Pages of Patriarchal History” and “Mount Athos, Monastic Centers, and Pilgrimage Sites of the Orthodox East”;
(b) seminar courses (undergraduate and postgraduate), such as “Sources of Church History of the First and Second Millennium”; and
(c) assigned courses depending on the Department’s needs, most recently “Church History I.”
He has presented papers at numerous academic conferences in Greece and abroad, and his articles have been published in scholarly journals and conference proceedings. He has edited the publication of many books by university professors and bishops of the Church, and for nearly two decades he was responsible for proofreading the “Calendar of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.”
He has an excellent command of English and a good knowledge of German, and he was awarded a DAAD scholarship in Marburg, Germany.