Introducing the Faith & Order Podcast Series with the NCC USA

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Dr. Antonios Kireopoulos is associate general secretary at the National Council of Churches USA, where as director of both Faith & Order and Interreligious Relations & Collaboration, he is responsible for theological dialogue among both ecumenical and interfaith partners. This includes intra-Christian dialogue, as well as Jewish-Christian, Muslim-Christian, Buddhist-Christian, Hindu-Christian and Sikh-Christian dialogue. An Orthodox Christian theologian, he previously directed, and continues to contribute to the Council’s work in international affairs and its advocacy on US foreign policy issues.  

Formerly, Kireopoulos was executive director of Religions for Peace – USA, where he promoted interfaith collaboration to address common domestic social concerns. Before that he was special assistant to the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in the area of external affairs, and assistant to the chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, in communications.  

Among his affiliations, Kireopoulos is on the executive committee of Shoulder-to-Shoulder, an organization dedicated to fighting Islamophobia in the U.S., and Churches for Middle East Peace, and he has served as chair of United to End Genocide and as a founding board member of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and its Religious Advisory Committee, as well as a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Orthodox Theological Society in America. He formerly served as a member of both the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad and its Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group, and as president of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief.   

Kireopoulos holds degrees from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Thunderbird School of Global Management, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and Fordham University. He is a published author, guest lecturer and media spokesperson on issues in theology, social justice, and religion and the public square. He has expertise in the areas of religious freedom and genocide. 

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