Nafpaktos Ierotheos: "Bioethics and Metabioethics"translated

The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios Mr. Ierotheos spoke on Saturday, October 17, 2026 at the 3rd Congress of the Democritus University of Thrace, which was organized by the Bioethics Laboratory and the "Bioethics" Graduate Program of the Department of Medicine of the University of Athens.

Leading scientists from Greece and abroad participate in the conference, entitled "Bioethical Dilemmas". His works are hosted in the historical Gennadeio Library, in the Cotsen Hall, in Athens, and are held under the auspices of the President of the Republic, Mr. Konstantinos Tassoulas.

His Eminence, invited by the president of the Organizing Committee, Mrs. Alexandra Tsarouha, professor of Experimental Surgery and director of the Graduate Studies Program "Bioethics" of the ITH, participated in the round table on "Biotheology - Bioethics", where he developed his introduction entitled "Bioethics and Metabioethics".

Initially, he emphasized that the rapid development of biomedical research and biotechnology created the need to develop a special science, Bioethics, in order to set certain limits so that new discoveries benefit humans and do not harm them.