Background
He was born in Athens, Greece, where he received his first education and studied science.
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George Dragas
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Education
Dragas, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Divinity (Honorary), is Professor of Patrology at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts. He pursued Theological Studies at Edinburgh University (Bachelor's Degree), Princeton Theological Seminary (Master of Theology) and Durham University, England (Doctor of Philosophy).
Career
He is currently professor of patristics at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts. Protopresbyter George Dion. He taught patristics at Durham University in England from 1974-1995.
Since 1995, he has been teaching at Holy Cross in Brookline.
At present, he is also a Visiting Professor at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, and Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, New New York He is a specialist on Saint Athanasius and the Alexandrian theologians and is responsible for updating with critical introductions the Athens reprint of Migne"s Patrologia Graeca (about 80 volumes published so far).
He is also the General Editor of the Patristic and Ecclesiastical Texts and Translations and the Orthodox Theological Library series published by the Orthodox Research Institute. In 2000, the Faculty of Theology of the Saint Clement National University of Sofia, Bulgaria, conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity (Doctor of Divinity) Honoris causa.
In 2005, the Department of Pastoral and Social Theology of the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Theology (Doctor of Theology) Honoris causa.
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