This year's Clergy Retreat features presentations by Rev. Dr. Vasileios Thermos, M.D., Ph.D. During 2001-2013 Fr. Vasileios was a visiting Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Psychology of Religion in the Theological Academy of the Orthodox Church of Albania. Since 2013 he teaches as an Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology in the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens.

He has been a member of scientific committees organizing conferences on the relationship between theology and psychiatry/psychology. He has also given thousands of lectures to seminars, parents groups, clergy assemblies, camps, high schools, radio and TV etc.

His areas of interest are: Relationship between psychological sciences and religion; Psychology of religious beliefs and experiences; Dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion; Psychology of clergy and of the ecclesiastical organization; Psychology of culture; Religious development of child and adolescent; Language, psychology, and religion; Post-modernity and religion.