The final round of Athens College High School’s “Three Hierarchs” Oratory Competition, open to 10th graders, was held on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at the Choremi Theater.

Winner of the 2021-2022 “Three Hierarchs” Prize is Andreas Pavlopoulos, while Georgios Nakas placed second.

The theme of this year’s speech was:

"I am a father for you, and a brother, a bridegroom, and a home, a nurse and a dress, a root and a cornerstone. Whatever you want I am for you. I don’t want you to be in any need. I will serve you, because I came not to be served but to serve. I am a friend, and a member, and a head, and a brother and a sister, and a mother. I am everything for you. Only be in contact with me. I have been poor for you and a wanderer for you, I have been on the cross and in the tomb for you. High above with the Father I mediate for you. Down here I arrived as an ambassador sent by the Father to you. You are everything to me, a brother and a co-heir, a friend, and a member of my body. What more do you desire?" 

^{St. John Chrysostom}

What does friendship mean in the life and work of the Three Hierarchs? How could it benefit young people today?

The Committee of Judges for the Competition Finals was comprised of: Very Reverend Dr. Aristarchos Vasileios Gkrekas, Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Theology,  Mr. Konstantinos Kornarakis, Professor of Theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Mrs. Daphne Koutsouki ’00, partner at the Koutsoukis & Associates law firm, Supreme Court  and Council of the State Lawyer and winner of the Athens College Three Hierarchs Prize in 2000.

Students who qualified for the Final Round of the Competition were:

1.       KOUKAS  ACHILLEAS-VASILEIOS 

2.       NAKAS GEORGIOS

3.       PAPANASTASIOU ANDREAS

4.       PAPASAKELLARIOU MELINA

5.       PAVLOPOULOS ANDREAS

Those who made it to the Semi-Finals were:

1.       GEORGOUSIS DIMITRIOS

2.       MAKRI NIKOLAIS

3.       PANOURGIA ELENI- STYLIANI

4.       PANTOU FOTEINI- KALLIOPI

5.       PAPADIMITRIOU DIMITRIOS

Congratulations to all the students who took part in the Finals as well as the Semi-Finals of the Competition.