Church Personnel

These goals are served, by God’s grace and our Archbishop’s blessings, by the Community’s incumbent priest-in-charge, assisted by the lower clergy of chanters, readers, sextons, altar boys, catechism teachers, and church wardens.

The priest carries the second grade of the upper clergy, and, by the Archbishop’s blessing, conducts sacraments and services, so that the Grace of the Holy Spirit is diffused to the Community faithful. He also evangelizes the Kingdom of Heaven by preaching the Word of God in the Divine Liturgies, in Gospel-reading circles, and in electronic correspondence groups (email, Viber, WhatsApp). This way he strives to gradually sow, plant and cultivate among the younger and the older true faith in Trinitarian God; also to portray ways of correctly practicing it.

Lower clergy (chanters, sextons, catechism teachers, wardens etc) portray the inter-complementarity of the Body of Christ, namely the Church. As St Paul put it, “you are the body of Christ and each one of you are a part of it”. That is, all of us constitute Christ’s Body, but, at the same time, we are separate, particular and unique members of it. Thus, the lower clergy of our local church/parish/community, as “parts of Christ’s Body”, offer talents and time, so that the priest is assisted in his above mentioned mission. Most of all, they contribute to the officiating of the Divine Liturgy, the sacrament of sacraments, which keeps world alive and prepares it for eternity.

Right below you may find full names and short bios of the priest and his assistants.

Fr Stavros Bozos was born in Kavala, Eastern Macedonia, in 1968. He finished High School in Ambelokipi, Athens, with an “excellent”, and in 1992 he graduated from the History-Archeology Department of the Philosophy Faculty of the National and Capodistriac University of Athens with a “very good”. He served his military duty as an artillery reservist second lieutenant for 24 months (1987-1989). Upon successful examinations he studied at the Greek National School of Public Administration (1994-1996), and after graduation he became a full-time permanent civil servant at the Greek Ministry for the Environment. In the meantime (1990-1997), he was the second chanter (lampadarios) of the St Charalambis parish church, Pedion Areos, Athens.

As a scholar of Greece’s State Scholarship Foundation and with an educational leave from his Ministry, he underwent his postgraduate studies at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK (1997-2002), where he completed his PhD thesis on London and Athens, 1850-1914. At the same time, he served the Leicester Greek Orthodox Community as the church’s first chanter, Greek School and Greek Language teacher, and Ecclesiastical Music teacher.

In 2001 he married Dr Kalli Mantala, with whom they have four children. In 2003, he returned to Greece and resided in Markopoulo Mesogaias, working for the Ministry for the Environment until 2009, when he was transferred to the Ministry for Education and Religious Affairs. In the latter he served as Director for Ecclesiastical and Religious Education for seven years.

In 2006, he was ordained deacon and priest by the Metropolitan of Mesogaia & Lavreotiki Nikolaos. He served the newly established parish of St Nicholas, Markopoulo, for seven years (2007-2014), and the Prophet Elias parish, Porto Rafti, for four years (2014-2018), at the latter post as priest-in-charge for half of the term. Since July 1st, 2018, he has been transferred to the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, serving the Holy Three Hierarchs Community of Leeds and the surrounding districts.

Costas Tsakirides, born in Drama, Eastern Macedonia, in 1967; studied Physical Education and Sports Science in Greece and the UK. Member of the Community since 1997, he is currently a senior lecturer at Leeds Becket University.

Isidoros Bozos, High School student

Nicholas Bozos, primary school student

Sevastiani Bozou, High School student

Irineos Livadiotis (see B2. Assistant chanters, other lectern-related personnel)

Zoi Antonopoulou, born in Amarousion, Attiki, and raised in the city of Pirgos, Peloponnese. She read Primary Education at the University of Patras. Since 2016 she has moved to England working in Leeds and Basingstoke as a Preschool Teacher, and a support or outreach support worker for young adults/adults with learning disabilities. Since September 2019, parallel to her work, she has been doing an ‘MA in Special Educational Needs’ in the University of Leeds.

Georgios Dermentzoglou, civil engineer