Rev. Fr. Peter Chamberas
Metropolis of Boston
Retired, Brookline, MA 02445
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Fr. Peter was born in 1938 at Xerokampion, Laconia, Greece. He came to the United States as a child when his father, also a priest, came to serve the Church in America in 1946. After graduating from high school in Poughkeepsie, NY, Fr. Peter attended Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, 1955-1961, earning a BA in theology. He also earned academic degrees from Boston University, School of Theology (1965, STM), and from Athens University, School of Theology (1963, Licentiate and 1970, Doctorate). He has taught Sacred Scripture at the Academy of St. Basil in Garrison, NY and at Hellenic College and Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, MA.
His doctoral dissertation, The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, originally published in Greek by Apostolike Diaconia in Athens, was recently translated and published in English by Newfound Publishing.
Fr. Peter is an ordained priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in America with the title of Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Over the past 50 years he has served three parishes: St. Nectarios in Boston, MA, St. George Cathedral in Manchester, NH, and Holy Trinity in Concord, NH. He also served as the resident chaplain at Hellenic College – Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, MA from 2007-2015 at which time he finally retired.
Married for 36 years to his beloved Presbytera Georgia (Dalber), of blessed memory, they were blessed with three children, Anastasia, Athan and Alexia, two sons-in-law, Fr. Mark Leondis and Jason Silva, and three grandchildren, Juliana Maria, Alexander Peter and Peter Athan.
Over the years Fr. Peter has written articles and books of his own such as Baptism and Chrismation; The Divine Liturgy Explained; This Is a Great Mystery: Christian Marriage in the Orthodox Church; An Orthodox Prayer Book; The Mystery of Repentance and Confession; and A Hunger for God: The Sacred Discipline of Fasting in the Orthodox Church. He is better known however through his published translations of over fifty academic articles and over thirty books, including the Commentary on the Gospel of St. John by Bishop Gerasimos Papadopoulos, published by Holy Cross Orthodox Press, and more recently Saint Paisios the Athonite, and the Spiritual Counsels of St. Paisios of Mount Athos, published by the Holy Hesychasterion of St. John the Evangelist in seven volumes.
After a lifetime of service to the Church, Fr. Peter is now living quietly in Hebron, New Hampshire, where he continues to read, write and translate Greek liturgical and theological texts into English. He cherishes visits from family, relatives and friends when he is not traveling to Greece or Florida. He continues to take an active part in the liturgical life of the Church.