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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  January 11, 2005

  Contact:  Nikki Stephanopoulos

  ARCHBISHOP DEMETRIOS OF AMERICA APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR OF GREEK EDUCATION

  NEW YORK - His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America has announced the
  appointment of Dr. Ioannis Efthymiopoulos as director of the Department
  of Greek Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

  In a statement, Archbishop Demetrios said, "The appointment of Dr.
  Ioannis Efthymiopoulos as director of the Department of Greek Education
  is a significant event in the history of contributions of the Greek
  Orthodox Archdiocese of America to Greek education and Greek culture. Dr.
  Efthymiopoulos will offer valuable services based on his vast educational
  experience and extensive involvement in the area of educational programs
  within and outside of Greece. His immediate knowledge of the Omogeneia in
  the United States is an additional qualification assuring a productive
  contribution in the area of Greek education."

  With the appointment of  Dr. Efthymiopoulos, and the continued creative
  offering of Mrs. Maria Makedon and other colleagues, the Department of
  Greek Education has the potential for enhanced and dynamic work in the
  vital area of Greek-American education.

  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  Dr. Ioannis Efthymiopoulos was born in Kardamas, in Ilia. In 1968 he
  concluded his university studies at the Aristotelian University of
  Thessaloniki.

  In 1984 he obtained a master's degree with distinction from the
  Continuing Education School of the Greek Ministry of Education and
  Religion and, in 1988, he earned a doctorate from the School of Sciences
  of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.

  Dr. Efthymiopoulos commands extensive teaching, administrative, and
  consulting experience in Greece, America, Germany and Belgium. He has
  taught at the Experimental School and the Pedagogic Institute of
  Thessaloniki, the Aristotelian University and the Pedagogic Academy of
  Thessaloniki, and at various high schools.

  Until recently, Dr. Efthymiopoulos was educational advisor of the
  Pedagogical Institute at the Regional Administration of Primary and
  Secondary Education of Central Macedonia.

  From November 1998 until September 2002 he served as consul for
  Educational Affairs at the Education Office at the Consulate General of
  Greece in Chicago. During his service in the United States, Dr.
  Efthymiopoulos, in cooperation with the Diocese of Chicago, organized
  seminars for parochial school teachers in many communities and became
  familiar with the Greek-American educational system.

  In the years 1994-98 he served as educational advisor for secondary
  education in the prefectures of Pella and Imathia and in 1989-94 as head
  of the Greek Department of the European School in Brussels.

  In 1981-82, with a scholarship from Goethe Institute, he supervised Greek
  students in German schools in Munich, and between 1978-81 he headed the
  administration office for secondary education in Thessaloniki.

  Dr. Efthymiopoulos and his wife, Athanasia Proiou Efthymiopoulou, have
  two adult children, one in Chicago and the other in Rome.

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