Rev. Fr.  Alexandros Pretorian

He was born in Bucharest, Romania, and is of Greek and Romanian descent.

He studied at the Orthodox Seminary in Bucharest, graduating with honors.

In 2002, he was successfully admitted for undergraduate studies at the School of Theology in Bucharest, where he studied for two years. His high grades allowed him to participate in the European competition for graduate studies, and he was awarded a scholarship from the Greek Ministry of Education to continue his studies in Athens, Greece, at the School of Theology, Department of Scientific Theology.

In the last year of his studies, he was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in the Greek Archdiocese of Athens and served there until 2022. He continued his training in Pastoral Care at the Institute of Ministry of the Greek Archdiocese of Athens in matters of Youth, Family, and modern methods of pastoral care. He was awarded the rank of Protopresvyter by His Eminence Archbishop of all Greece Ieronymos.

In 2022, he was accepted with a scholarship at the Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, for postgraduate studies in the Master of Theology program.

Father speaks Greek and Romanian and has studied Ancient Latin, Greek, and Slavonic. He has degrees of Proficiency in English, French, German, and Italian.