ieronymos served as protosyncellus of the metropolis of thebes and livadeia, abbot of the monasteries of the transfiguration of sagmata and hosios loukas, and secretary, later archsecretary, of the holy synod of the church of greece. in 1981 he was elected metropolitan bishop of thebes and levadeia. in addition to his pastoral ministry, ieronymos has been pursuing his work on christian archaeology and has published two major textbooks: "medieval monuments of euboea" (1970), and "christian boeotia" (2006). in 1998, he unsuccessfully contested the election to the throne of the archbishopric of athens.