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    Dr. Dr. Athanasios Stogiannidis was born in Kavala in 1977. He studied Theology at the Faculty of Theology in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He graduated in June 1999 with the grade “excellent” (9, 48).

    Then continuing his studies at the same university, he specialized in Pedagogy, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Ioannis Kogoulis, acquiring the corresponding Master’s Degree in April 2003 with the grade “excellent” (9, 93). The title of his postgraduate work was “interpersonal communication within the so-called postmodern era and the Orthodox Christian education.”

    He carried out an independent scientific research (eigenständige Forschungsprojekt) for three years at the Institute of Religious Education (Institut für Religionspädagogik) in the Faculty of Protestant Theology (Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät) of the University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), during the years 1999-2002. The research is related to a comparison among theories of education, based οn Orthodox and Protestant pedagogical anthropology. This investigation resulted in writing a Dissertation entitled “Bildungstheorien im Vergleich. Eine Untersuchung zum Verhältnis von Evangelischer und Orthodoxer Religionspädagogik “(«Comparing theories of education. A study on the relationship between the Protestant and Orthodox Religious Education “). This Dissertation had been developed under the supervision of Professor Dr.  Michael Meyer-Blanck, in the Faculty of Protestant Theology (Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät), of University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), and it was evaluated with the note “magna cum laude” (= excellent), whereas the oral examination (Rigorosum) was assessed with the note “summa cum laude” (= excellent with distinction). In April 2003 Athanasios Stogiannidis was awarded his Doctor’s degree (Doctor Theologiae Bonnensis) in an official ceremony at the University of Bonn.

    Five years later, in July 2008, Athanasios Stogiannidis acquired his second Doctor’s degree, this time by the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the scientific field of Didactics on Religious Education. His second Dissertation was a research on “The Teaching with the worship-symbols of the Orthodox Catholic Church. Primary and Secondary Education -“; it was evaluated with the grade “excellent”. (Director Professor John Kogoulis).

     Athanasios Stogiannidis served, upon examination of the Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ΑΣΕΠ), as an appointed teacher of Religious Education in schools of Secondary Education in Greece,  from September 2006 until January 2013. On 17 January 2013, he was appointed as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on the scientific area entitled as below: “School Pedagogy and Teaching Methodology of Religious Education.” (Official Government Gazette for the notice of position vacancy: 87/5-2-2009, issue Γ’. – Official Government Gazette for the Appoinment: 1375/31-12-2012, issue Γ’). On 6 July 2015, he was appointed as a Assistent Professor. (Official Government Gazette for the notice of position vacancy: 739/11-06-2014, issue Γ’. – Official Government Gazette for the Appoinment: 608/29-06-2015, issue Γ’). On 21 October 2022, he was appointed as a Ascociate Professor. (Official Government Gazette for the notice of position vacancy: 868/ 09-04-2021. – Official Government Gazette for the Appoinment 2558/10-10-2022, issue Γ’.

    Athanasios Stogiannidis has a diploma of piano and three other degrees regarding the theory of music. More specifically, those three degrees are related to Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue. Except modern Greek, he speaks two languages​​, English and German.

    He is married to Athanasia Papaefthimiou and they have a daughter, Amalia.