Fr. Christos Christakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1968. He is married to Presvytera Lisa (Parthenakis) of Cincinnati, Ohio. Father and Presvytera have four children.

Fr. Christos studied theology at the University of Athens. He pursued graduate studies in England and received a Ph.D in Patristic Theology in 1996 at King’s College, London.

Fr. Christos was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan John (Zezioulas) of Pergamon on September 26, 1996 and a priest by Metropolitan Kallinikos of Piraeus on September 29, 1996. He served at the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain until 1999 and in the Archdiocese of America since then.

He is an adjunct professor at Canisius University, Buffalo, where has taught courses on the history and theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 2007.

Fr. Christos has been the Orthodox secretary of the International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue under the chairmanship of Metropolitans: John of Pergamon (1994-2007), Kallistos of Diokleia (2007-2016) and Athenagoras of Belgium (since 2016).

In June 1998 Fr. Christos was one of the three-member delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Vatican and the late Pope John - Paul II for the patronal feast (Sts. Peter and Paul) of the Church of Rome.

He is given the offikion of Protopresbyter and serves as the Proistamenos of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Buffalo, NY.