What Roman Catholic priest was a significant influence in the Ecological Movement of Thessaloniki?
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Ecological Movement of Thessaloniki Ecological Movement of Thessaloniki (Greek: Οικολογική Κίνηση Θεσσαλονίκης , "Oikologiki Kinisi Thessalonikis"), is the oldest living eco-political group of Greece. It was founded in 1982, by an initial core of people with ecological sensitivities who wanted to turn them into action. Among them was Michalis Tremopoulos (currently an elected councillor in the Thessaloniki Prefecture and an elected member of the Executive Secretariat of Ecologist Greens, the Greek Green Party) and Yiannis Tziolas, who are still active. Oikologiki Kinisi in fact means ecological move or action or movement. This shows an emphasis on action and social mobilization. The political agenda of the group consists of the main pillars of the green ideology: ecology, peace/non-violence, grassroots democracy, human rights, social solidarity, with a strong social context. A major influence was Murray Bookchin's social ecology. André Gorz, Ivan Illich and Cornelius Castoriadis were also significant influences.
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Ivan Illich Ivan Illich ( ; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was a Croatian-Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and critic of the institutions of modern Western culture, who addressed contemporary practices in education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.
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Gregory Thaumaturgus Gregory Thaumaturgus or Gregory the Miracle-Worker (Ancient Greek: Γρηγόριος ὁ Θαυματουργός , "Grēgórios ho Thaumatourgós"; c. AD  213 – 270), also known as Gregory of Neocaesarea, was a Christian bishop of the 3rd century. He has been canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
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Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva is a prominent environmental activist from Brazil, where he is director of the Roman Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission. Because of his work with local communities deep in the Amazon jungle in their struggle against illegal commercial logging and mining operations, "after the American nun Dorothy Stang was shot to death on a jungle road, he replaced her at the top of the death list that loggers, ranchers, miners and land speculators are known to maintain."
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Elias Zoghby Elias Zoghby (January 9, 1912 – January 16, 2008) was the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Baalbek and a leading advocate of Catholic-Orthodox ecumenism. He is best known for his ecumenical interventions during Vatican II and his 1995 Profession of Faith, known as the Zoghby Initiative, which attempted to re-establish communion between the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church while maintaining communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
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Demetrius of Thessaloniki Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki (Greek: Άγιος Δημήτριος της Θεσσαλονίκης ) is a Christian martyr of the early 4th century AD.
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John of Saint-Denis Saint John (Kovalevsky) of Saint-Denis (April 8, 1905-January 30, 1970), was the First Hierarch of the Orthodox Church of France (ECOF) from 1966 until his death in 1970. He was canonised as a saint of the Orthodox Church on 12 October 2008 by Bishop Gregory of Arles.
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Kiro Stojanov Monsignor Dr Kiro Stojanov (9 April 1959 in the village of Radovo, Bosilovo Municipality) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Skopje and the Apostolic Administrator and Exarch of the Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church. He is the first Catholic bishop of Macedonian ethnicity in 104 years. He was ordained as a priest in 1986, and from 1999 to 2005 he was the Auxiliary and Titular Bishop of the Skopje Diocese which was then led by Monsignor Joakim Herbut. In 2003 he joined the Maltese Order.
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Jimmy Tompkins (priest) Reverend James John Tompkins (7 September 1870 – 5 May 1953) was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the Antigonish Movement, a progressive effort that incorporated adult education, cooperatives and rural community development to aid the fishing and mining communities of northern and eastern Nova Scotia, Canada. The Antigonish Movement later evolved into the Extension Department (now the Coady International Center) of St. Francis Xavier University.
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Nicholas Gruner Nicholas Nightingale Gruner (May 4, 1942April 29, 2015) was a Roman Catholic priest and a promoter of the message of Our Lady of Fatima, an apparition of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Father Gruner's interpretation of that message at times proved somewhat controversial, even among other groups of Traditionalist Catholics.
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Agathonicus Saint Agathonicus was a 3rd-century citizen of Nicomedia. While living in Greece, he taught the Greeks about Christianity. Meanwhile, the imperial governor began persecuting Christians, following the orders of Emperor Maximian. In this persecution, Agathonicus' companion Zoticus was seized in Carpe, and his followers were crucified. He was sent to Nicomedia, where Agathonicus and his companions Princeps, Theoprepius, Acyndinus, Severian, Zeno, along with many others, were then taken to Byzantium. On this journey, many of the companions died from exhaustion and abuse, and the others were killed in Chalcedon. The survivors were taken to Thrace in Selymbria, where, after being tortured in front of the Greek Emperor, were beheaded.
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Eleuterio Francesco Fortino Eleuterio Francesco Fortino (April 21, 1938 – September 22, 2010) was an Italian priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church. Fortino, who was ordained a Catholic priest on 1962, served as Archimandrite in the Eparchy of Lungro in Calabria. He also served as the Under Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1987 until his death on September 22, 2010. Additionally, he headed the Vatican office charged with improving relations with Orthodox Christianity for ten years.
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Aleksei Zerchaninov Archpriest Aleksei Evgrafovich Zerchaninov ( born on March 9, 1848, Borisov, Russian Federation - 23 September 1933, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation ) was a Russian Greek-Catholic priest.
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Dimitri Salachas Dimitri (Dimitrios) Salachas (born in 1939 in Athens, Greece) was the Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church.
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Christos Palaiologos Christos Palaiologos (Greek: Χρήστος Παλαιολόγος , 1950 – 30 August 2009) was a Greek politician. He was born in Livadeia, and studied as a civil engineer in the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was the Mayor of Livadeia from 1990 to 2002, and a major figure in the leadership of the Coalition of Left, of Movements and Ecology.
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Ernesto Balducci Ernesto Balducci (6 August 1922 – 25 April 1992) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and peace activist.
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Yan Matusevich Father Yan Matusevich (Belarusian: Ян Матусевіч, Jan Matusievič , 24 July 1946 – 2 September 1998) was a biritualist Belarusian Catholic priest, and dean of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church.
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Vasyl Velychkovsky Blessed Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky (June 1, 1903 – June 30, 1973) was a priest, and later bishop, of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches under the Pope. He is a martyr of the Catholic Church, dying in 1973 of his injuries sustained while imprisoned by the Soviet Union for his Christian faith.
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Raymond E. Brown Raymond Edward Brown, S.S. (May 22, 1928 – August 8, 1998), was an American Catholic priest, a member of the Sulpician Fathers and a prominent Biblical scholar. He was regarded as a specialist concerning the hypothetical "Johannine community", which he speculated contributed to the authorship of the Gospel of John, and he also wrote influential studies on the birth and death of Jesus. Brown was professor emeritus at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York where he taught for 29 years. He was the first Catholic professor to gain tenure there, where he earned a reputation as a superior lecturer.
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Michael Pfleger Michael Louis Pfleger (born May 22, 1949) is a Roman Catholic priest and a social activist in Chicago, Illinois.
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Severus of Barcelona Severus of Barcelona (Catalan: "Sant Sever" , Spanish: "San Severo" ) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. His legend states that he was a bishop of Barcelona and was martyred during the persecution of Christians by Diocletian in AD 304. Details concerning his life and death are uncertain and of questionable historicity, and his "Acta" actually date from around the sixth century.
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Vincentian Family The Vincentian Family comprises organizations inspired by the life and work of St. Vincent de Paul, a 17th-century priest who "transformed the face of France."