• Fr Stavros Kofinas (Co-ordinator)
• Co-ordinator's Page
• Rev Fred Coutts
• Rev Debbie Hodge
• Ms Dana Kalnina-Zake
• Drs Anneke Kemper
• Axel Liégeois
• Rev José Nuno
•  

E-mail:
coordinator@eurochaplains.org

Telephone: 
+30 6944 57 3625

Fax:
+30 210 93 74 217

Mailing address:
Lycias 3
171 24 
Nea Smyrni
Greece

Co-ordinator's Page

Fr Stavros Kofinas
(Ecumenical Patriarchate)

Fr STAVROS KOFINAS is a priest (protopresbyter) of the Orthodox Church. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, he studied theology at Hellenic College - Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, Mass. After his studies in theology, he received his Doctorate of Ministry from Andover-Newton Theological School in the area of clinical psychology and pastoral psychiatric care.
He has resided in Greece since 1976, where he served as the chaplain of the Red Cross General Hospital in Athens for many years.
He has organized and taken part in many educational seminars and training programs for clergy, doctors, nurses and social workers. Fr. Stavros has authored books and articles related to Orthodox Christian theology and pastoral care, particularly pastoral healthcare, marriage and family life. He is very experienced in the area of psychiatric care and is a practicing psychotherapist.
Celebrant of the Monastery of St. Meletios in northwest Attica, he supervises the clergy of the pastoral healthcare program of the Metropolis of Megara at the Hospital of Elefsis and serves as a supervising consultant for the Counselling Program of the Metropolis of Peristeri. He also serves on the Synodical committee concerning special pastoral issues.
As representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, he attended the European Consultation of Hospital Chaplaincy, which took place in Rome. He led the organization of the 6th Consultation, which took place at the Orthodox Academy of Crete.

Fr. Stavros was elected as the first coordinator of the ENHCC at the 7th Consultation in Turku. He was re-elected for a further 4 years at the 8th Consultation in Dublin in 2004.
He was elected for a further 2 years at the 10th Consultation in Turku, Esonia in 2008.

E-mail: debbie.hodge@cte.org.uk

Telephone: 

Mailing Address:
Churches Together in England
27 Tavistock Square
London WC1 9HH
UK
 

Revd Debbie Hodge
(Free Churches Secretary for Health Care Chaplaincy)

Elected in Tartu 2008 as the organiser of the 11th Consultation in England and Wales 2010

Revd Debbie Hodge is Free Church Secretary for Health Care Chaplaincy. Ordained as a minister in the United Reformed Church in 2000, Debbie has served at Leaside Methodist/ United Reformed Church in Ware and in a variety of Chaplaincy post in higher education and health care settings.
Debbie has a background in the National Health Service. She trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and has worked as nurse, nursing tutor and as Principal Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Hertfordshire. She maintains her nursing links as a member of the National Steering Group for Parish Nursing as a lecturer.
She is an Associate lecturer at St Marys College, Strawberry Hill, and lectures at St Michaels College Cardiff (soon to be the Centre for Chaplaincy Studies). Her current studies include the development of a 'Model of Spiritual care'. Based at Churches Together in England she is the Secretary of Churches Together for Healing and Executive Officer for the Women's Coordinating group (including the Violence Against Women sub group)
She attended the Network consultations in Lisbon and Tartu.

E-Mail: naatan.haamer@kliinikum.ee

Telephone
+3727441044

Mailing Address
Lepiku 14 -3b
Tartu
Estonia

Elected in Lisbon in 2006 as Organiser of 10th Consultation, Estonia 2008

Naatan Haamer was born in 1965 in Tartu, Estonia. He has worked in Tartu University hospitals since 1992. He also works as a trainer and supervisor and has been leader of  the Pastoral Care field in the Estonian Lutheran Church since 1997. Naatan is married with 3 children.
He attended the Network Consultations in Turku, Dublin, Lisbon and Tartu.
 

E-mail:
am.kemper@mediant.nl

Mailing Address:
Erve Stroomboer 29
Borne 7623 JC
NETHERLANDS

Elected  Committee Member 2008

Drs Anneke KEMPER is the President of VGVZ, the Dutch Association of Spiritual Caregivers in health Care Institutions.   She is  Roman Catholic by baptism and works full time in Mediant, a psychiatric institute in Enschede, Holland.  She also teaches practical theology for eight hours a week.
She attended the Network consultations in Dublin, Lisbon and Tartu.   She served as an alternate committee member from 2004-6 and was elected to the committee again in 2008.

Axel Liégeois
(Catholic Univerity of Louvain)

Elected Committee Member 2008

Axel Liégeois is a catholic moral and pastoral theologian from Belgium. He studied philosophy, theology and ethics was trained in counselling and pastoral supervision. At this time, he is professor of pastoral and practical theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven. He holds the chair for pastoral and ethical research and teaching in the field of care for people with a mental disorder or a mental disability. He also works as ethical and pastoral advisor for the Brothers of Charity in Gent, a religious congregation with twenty five services for people with mental disorder or disability in Belgium.
 

E-mail: 
capelanias.coord_nac@hsjoao.min-saude.pt

Telephone: 
+351 91 991 2294

Mailing address:
Coordenação Nacional
Capelanias Hospitalares
Hospital S. João
Al. Professor Hernâni Monteiro
4202- 451 Porto
PORTUGAL

Elected Committee Member 2008

Fr José NUNO is a diocesan priest of Oporto Diocese in Portugal and
chaplain of the largest hospital in  Oporto, the Saint John The Baptist’s Hospital. It has about 1400 beds and includes the Faculty of Medicine. In 2002 the Portuguese Episcopal Conference appointed him as National Coordinator for Hospital Chaplaincies for Portugal.  In his own Diocese his Bishop has appointed as Diocesan Coordinator of Pastoral Health Care.

He has been awarded the degree of Master in Theological Bioethics at the Portuguese Catholic University and is  currently completing the Pontifical Master in Pastoral Healthcare at the International Institute of Pastoral Theology of Health Care of Rome, known as the Camillianum.

Fr Nuno represented Portgual at the 8th Consultation of ENHCC in Dublin and was the organiser of the 9th Consultation in Lisbon.

E-mail: dana.kalnina@gmail.com

Telephone: 
+371 7069645

Mailing address:
Dana Kalnina-Zake
Elizabetes 87-4
Riga, LV 1050
LATVIA

Ms Dana Kalnina-Zake
(Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia)

Elected Alternate Committee Member 2006

Dana Kalnina-Zake is a hospital chaplain from Latvia. She serves as a Director for Spiritual Care Department in Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital, which is the central multi-profile university type hospital of Latvia.  She is the chairwoman of the Board of Latvia Association of Professional Health Care Chaplaincy and the official representative of the  Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia in ENHCC and attended the consultations in Dublin and Lisbon.

E-mail: 
Fred.Coutts@btinternet.com

Telephone: 
+ 44 1224 553166

Fax:
+44 1224 554551

Mailing address:
Chaplains' Office
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Foresterhill
ABERDEEN
AB25 2ZN
UK

Rev Fred Coutts
(Scottish Churches Committee on healthcare Chaplaincy)

Rev FRED COUTTS has worked since 1989 as a hospital chaplain in a large teaching hospital in Aberdeen.  Before that he served as a parish minister of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian).  He is a member of the ecumenical (with inter-faith representation) Scottish Churches Committee on Healthcare Chaplaincy and served as part-time Training Officer for Healthcare Chaplaincy in Scotland from 1997-2001. He attended the Network Consultations in Crete, Turku, Dublin and Lisbon.

Fred created the Network website after the Crete Consultation.  He was appointed Webmaster at the Turku consultation in 2002 and has continued to look after the Network Website since then.