Seraphim (Greek, Σεραφείμ) - born Vissarion Tikas (Greek, Βησσαρίων Τίκας) (October 26, 1913 - April 10, 1998) was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1974 to 1998. He was born in Artesiano, a borough of Karditsa in Greece, in 1913. Archbishop Seraphim of Athens enrolled in the Theological School of the University of Athens in 1936 and graduated in 1940. During his second year (1938), he became a monk in the Pendeli Monastery. He was ordained a deacon by the then Metropolitan Bishop of Korinth and by Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, and served at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Neo Iraklio.