page_title: Nomikos Michael Vaporis
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Nomikos Michael Vaporis / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Passport photo of Nomikos Vaporis (right) with his mother, Kalliope, used to enter the United States in 1929.
context_page_description: Nomikos Michael Vaporis was an historian of the Byzantine Empire and Modern Greek Hellenism at Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. He also served as Dean of Hellenic College, Acting Dean of Holy Cross, Acting Dean of Hellenic College and Interim Dean, Holy Cross. His other positions included: Director of Holy Cross Orthodox Press, Editor of the Greek Orthodox Theological Review, and Founder and Co-editor of the Journal of Modern Hellenism. During his career he also worked for interfaith dialogue, participating in peace missions, and organizing conferences and publishing academic works on the subject.
context_section_description: Nomikos Michael was born in Kalymnos, Greece, on 20 July 1926, emigrated to the United States at the age of three, and grew up in Campbell, OH. He was ordained to the diaconate in March 1954 and to the priesthood in May 1954. He received the rank Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1979.
  He is a graduate of Youngstown State College (B.A.); Holy Cross Orthodox School of Theology (Dipl. In Theology); Berkeley Divinity School (Yale Divinity School) (S.T.B., S.T.M.); School of Theology, University of Athens (Greece Lic. Theology); Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D. in Byzantine and Eastern European History). His dissertation research was conducted in Greece and Istanbul, Turkey (1964-1965), under the auspices of a Fulbright Award. He was a member of numerous of professional organizations, including: Modern Greek Studies Association; Orthodox Theological Society of America; Byzantine Society of the U.S.A.; Byzantine Studies Conference (also as a member of the governing board), Holy Cross Alumni Association; St. Andrew's Clergymen's Brotherhood.
  At Hellenic College/Holy Cross, Vaporis taught the History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Byzantine History, History of Modern Hellenism, History of Greece, History of the Balkans, Byzantine and Slavic Church History, and Lives of the Saints.
  Vaporis worked to advance interfaith dialogue, participating in a Middle East Peace Mission to Geneva, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Beirut organized by the Baptist Church (1973), organizing a conference on Byzantium and Islam (1980). He served on various interfaith bodies, including (Jewish) Reformed-Orthodox Consultation, Roman Catholic-Orthodox Consultation, Anglical-Orthodox Consultation, and Southern Baptist-Orthodox Consultation.
  Vaporis wrote a book, Witnesses for Christ: Orthodox Christian Neomartyrs of the Ottoman Period, 1437-1860, which was published after his death. The book was the subject of a review in The Catholic Historical Review.
caption: Passport photo of Nomikos Michael Vaporis (right) with mother, Kalliope Theodosiou, used for entry into the U.S. in 1929
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