Archimandrite Vassilios Bakoyannis was born in Greece in 1953 and was ordained in 1980. He serves in the metropolis of Patras, Greece. He received a bachelor’s degree in theology from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, a master in theology from St. Vladimir Seminary, New York, and a PhD in theology from Atlantic International University, USA. Since 1975, he has authored over 50 spiritual books, several of which have been translated from Greek to English, Romanian, Russian, Arabic, Italian, German and Indonesian.