Archbishop Job of Telmessos, Permanent Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches, has been appointed on 20 February 2019 Rector of the Institute of Post-Graduate Studies in Orthodox Theology in Chambésy (Switzerland), where he is Professor of Liturgical Theology since 2010. He succeeds to Professor Vlassios Phidas who has resigned from his position of Rector.

The Institute of Post-Graduate Studies in Orthodox Theology in Chambésy was established as an independent academic activity of the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and operates since 1996 in collaboration with the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Fribourg and the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Geneva. The mission of the Institute is to prepare young Orthodox theologians, coming from all the local Orthodox Churches, capable to conduct inter-Christian and inter-religious dialogues.