About Fr. David Bissias

Father David Bissias was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Elmhurst, IL, where he and his family attended the Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church of Westchester.  Father David graduated from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology with distinction in 1993.

Father David was ordained to the Holy Diaconate by the hand of (then) Bishop Iakovos of Chicago (later, the first Metropolitan of Chicago; d. 2017) on February 2, 1994 at his home parish.  He served as the bishop's deacon until his ordination to the Holy Priesthood on May 21, 1994, at the Saints Constantine and Helen Church of Palos Hills, IL.  From June, 1994 to July, 1996, he was assigned as the Associate Pastor of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of Milwaukee, WI.  On August 1, 1996, he was assigned as the pastor of the Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church of Hammond, IN.  In 2000, he also began to serve as the Special Administrative Assistant to His Eminence, Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago, serving in that position until 2017.

Father David has delivered numerous lectures, seminars and presentations throughout the Mid-West, in parishes, at colleges, and various academic, interfaith, and ecumenical meetings and retreats.  He has published several articles (outside of parish publications) and his book, The Mystery of Healing: Oil, Anointing and the Unity of the Local Church (Orthodox Research Institute, 2006) has been recently translated into Romanian (Iasi, Romania: Doxologia, 2012).