Fr. Gregory-Telemachos Stamkopoulos

Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne

Rev. Gregory-Telemachos Stamkopoulos is a member of the clergy of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He was a clergyman of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki, Greece, serving as a parish priest at St. Nicholas Church in Harilaou, Thessaloniki, since 1997, when he was ordained to the priesthood by the ever-memorable Metropolitan Panteleimon of Thessaloniki at St. Demetrios Cathedral in Thessaloniki. He holds a BSc in Physics and a BA in Theology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Fr. Gregory also holds an MSc in Radioelectrology from the Physics Department of AUTH and a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from AUTH's Medical School. Outside Greece, he was a research fellow in Computer Vision at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, in 1990. He also worked at Yale University as a postdoc research fellow focusing on Telemedicine while serving at St. Basil's Greek Orthodox Church in New Haven, CT, from 2000 to 2002. He has taught theology and sciences as a visiting professor at the Theological School of Moscow (2014-2018) and the Theological School of Kyiv (2012-2018). Since 2017, he has been the scientific advisor and a visiting professor of Informatics in the Department of Computer Science at the Orthodox University of Congo in Kinshasa, Congo, where he teaches Mathematical Logic and Decision Support Systems. From 2009 to 2019, he was responsible for the digital archive of the Chalki Theological School Library in Istanbul, Turkey.

Since 2010, Fr. Gregory has been an Associate Professor teaching Applied Information Technology at the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki. From 2013 to 2015, he served as President of the Academy's Academic Council. From 2004 to 2013, he served as CEO of the Cultural and Educational Foundation St. Gregory Palamas in Thessaloniki. From 2004 to 2021, he also served as President of the Center for Vocational Training of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki. His research interests include Database Development for Heritage and Orthodox culture; neural networks; artificial intelligence and digitalization; the promotion of Orthodox culture; dogmatic theology; and the philosophical and theological aspects of information. Since 2020, he has been a member of the clergy of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, serving at St. Basil's Greek Orthodox Church in New Haven, CT, and serving as the Director of the Department of Greek Education and the Database Administrator for the Archdiocese's database systems. In October 2021, he was appointed by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America as the director of the Archdiocesan Hellenic Cultural Center in Astoria, NY, and, from January 1st, 2022, as the presiding priest at St. Spyridon Church in Washington Heights, NY. From January 1st, 2022, is an adjunct professor at Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, MA, teaching Science and Orthodox Theology.

He is married to dermatologist Eirini Sideridou, MD, and they have four children.