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The future metropolitan was born [[January 10]], 1931. He attended university in Thessaloniki and Athens and received his doctorate in theology in 1965 from the University of Athens. He was professor of theology for 14 years at the University of Glasgow, and has been a visiting professor at Geneva, Gregorian University, and King's College, London. He was consecrated as a bishop on [[June 22]], 1986 and named Metropolitan of Pergamon. Metropolitan John has become a key figure in major ecumenical dialogues between the Orthodox Church and other Christian traditions, and in 2006 succeeded Archbishop [[Stylianos (Harkianakis) of Australia|Stylianos of Australia]] as president of the Commission of Orthodox in the Dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church. He is also an important figure in ecological theology, playing a central role in making the Orthodox Church one of the most active religious communities involved with development and environmental issues.