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Archim. Athanasios Yianousas, Protesyncellus of the Metropolis of Kastoria, was elected by the Holy Synod of the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece, new Metropolitan of Sissanion and Siatista.
Archimandrite Athanasios received from the Body of the Hierarchy 71 votes, and today he became the new Sepherd of the Metropolis of Sissanion and Siatista.
The new Metropolitan of Sissanion and Siatista was born in Athens in 1971.
He graduated the School of Theology of the University of Athens in 1993, followed by postgraduate studies in the historical field of Theology.
He has a degree in English, and he also speaks German.
He became a Monk in the Holy Monastery of the Assumption of Virgin Mary at Penteli in 1995.
In the same year, he was ordained Deacon by Metropolitan Agathonikos of Kitros, Katerini and Platamon, with the permission and blessing of the Archbishop Seraphim of Athens and all Greece.
He served in the Church of St. Nicholas in Acharnon Str.
In 1996, leaving his postgraduate studies unfinished, he followed Metropolitan Seraphim of Kastoria, to Kastoria.
In 1997 he was ordained Elder and since then he serves in the Holy Church of Agios Georgios in the city of Kastoria.
In 1998, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece appointed him Protosyncellus of the Metropolis of Kastoria.
He also ministers in the field of preaching, Confession, and charity.
In 2012 he received the officcio of the Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne by the hands of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.