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Associate Professor Ioannis Bakas comes from Nigrita (Greece). He studied Theology and History. Their postgraduate and doctoral studies concern the History of Hellenism and the History of the Church. He worked as a research associate at the Society for Macedonian Studies and served in Secondary Education. He taught at the School of Language, Philology, and Culture of the Black Sea Countries of the Democritus University of Thrace and in the Postgraduate Program "Studies of Southeast Europe" at the Law School of the same University. He also taught, as an assistant professor, at the Department of Greek Language and Culture at the University of Edirne (Turkey). Since 2009 he has been serving at the School of Social Theology and Christian Culture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on the subject of History of Ancient Patriarchates. He has participated in over thirty international and local conferences and has published four monographs and several articles.