Career
He has earned degrees from Rome and Strasbourg. In mid-2007 he was ordained as the metropolitan bishop of Messenia but continues also to fulfil the obligations of his university chairman Earlier in 2008 he took part in the Ravenna conversation of the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue Commission, of which he has been for some time a member.
In 2010 Metropolitan Chrysostomos criticised Metropolitan Seraphim of Peiraieus" hostility to Pope Benedict"s visit to the Archbishop of Cyprus. ref Oecuménisme-Informations-novembre 2014.