His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos (Kourounis) is the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of New Jersey. Born in New York City on September 20, 1961 to John and Magdalene Kourounis, Evangelos attended the Greek-American parochial schools of St. Eleftherios and St. Spyridon in New York City. He enrolled in Hellenic College, in Brookline, Massachusetts from which he graduated in 1983 and then continued his studies at Holy Cross School of Theology, graduating in 1986 with a Masters of Divinity Degree.