Father Arthur N. Pappas was born of devout parents in Winston-Salem, N.C. July 29, l927. His parents were Nicholas and Sophia Pappas of the Province of Aetolo-Akarnania, his father was from Petrona, near Agrinion, his mother from Mesolongion. He attended the R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem and graduated in the year l943 at the age of 16 enrolling the same year in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to major in Economics.  He volunteerd and served in the U.S. Navy in Annapolis, Maryland from l944 to 1945 until the end of the 2nd World War and then returned to Chapel Hill. In l948 he traveled to San Francisco where he saught and found a deeper relationship with Christ and his Orthodox faith.

From May l949 to the summer of l950 he attended the Holy Cross Theological Seminary in Brookline, Ma., whose Dean was Bishop Ezekiel Tsoucalas of Patras. At the Seminary he was classmates among others with Father Stanley Harakas. Still undecided about the priesthood, from l951 to l952 he lived and worked on a sheep and cattle ranch in Livingston, Montana. In December of l952, prompted by his uncle, Father Athanasios Papapostolou of Greece, he departed for Athens, Greece to enroll at the University of Athens in the School of Theology from which University he graduaded by the Grace of God Cum Laude in 1957.  In the summer of l955, he sailed by boat to the Holy Land to visit the Orthodox Shrines of our Church to walk in our Lord's footsteps and remained a guest for a month at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

In the summer of l957  he met and married  the virtuous and graceful Eugenia Skountzos, a student in Athens.  Among the clergy officiating at their wedding was Bishop Philotheos, a deacon at the time at the Cathedral in Athens.  Her father was Antonios Skountzosand her mother Artemisia Skountzos.  In the Fall of l957 he traveled to Mt. Athos and visited several monasteries. In December of l957, he and his wife Eugenia left Piraeus by boat for New York on the Queen Friderica.

In March 1958, Father Pappas was ordained a Deacon by  the Primate of the Americas Archbishop Michael at the Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (the first ordination to take place at Saint Sophia's. Father John Tavlarides was an Assistant at the Cathedral at the time of his ordination. Two months later he was made a priest  by Archbishop Ezekiel at SS Constantine and Helen's in the Capital. His first parish was Saint George's Church in Fresno, Calif. where he succeeded Father John Limberakis.

From Fresno, Calif., he was transferred to Saint George's Church in Shreveport, LA., as Pastor and Greek School Teacher. Pursuant to his assignment to Shreveport, LA. he accepted a transfer to the Transfiguration Church in Corona, N.Y. as an Assistant to Father Evmenios Tselentakis.

In l964 he was made the first priest in the newly founded parish of Rockland County, N.Y. (some 35 miles from Manhattan) subsequently named SS Constantine and Helen's, located in West Nyack on the Palisades Parkway. During his five-year tenure in Rockland County, he took graduate studies at Saint Vladimirs' Seminary in Crestwood, N.Y. and, at Father Alexander Schmeman's suggestion, continued  his studies at Union Theology Seminary in Manhattan.

In 1969 he was transferred to Astoria, N.Y. to become an assistant to Fr. John Poulos where he served along with Father John Antonopoulos the Saint Demetrios and Saint Catherine's Churches in Astoria.  Five years later in 1974 he was assigned to the St. George Church in Middletown, Ohio as Pastor and Greek School Teacher to succeed Father Milton Efthimiou. While in Middletown, Ohio he earned a Degree in Psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

In 1977 he requested a transfer to Somerville, Ma to become the Priest of the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary and Director of the Afternoon Greek Schools. In Somerville, Father Arthur Pappas was awarded with a citation of honor by Mayor August for his services to the city. Tip O'Neil, Speaker of the House, assisted Father Pappas on one occasion in honoring George Dilboy, World War I Hero, whose bust stands on the grounds of City Hall in Somerville.

In l980 Father Arthur returned to New York to Pastor the Church of the Annunciation in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, succeeding Father Nectarios Kehagias. While in Manhattan, Father Arthur pursued graduate studies in Psychology at Hunter and City Colleges. Twelve years later, in l992, he was transferred to the St. Eleftherios Church on 24th Street in downtown Manhattan, the church where the marriage of his parents took place in l921.

In the Summer of l995, Father Arthur decided to retire and move with his family to Athens, Greece. During thirty-five years of his priesthood he served under His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos in some ten parishes throughout the United States. Being fluent in both Greek and English, Father's sermons each Sunday were in both languages. He gave lectures in Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic Churches. He published and mailed out a weekly bulletin in Greek and English with informative articles and announcements, organized panel discussions,  held Sunday School Seminars, spoke on television, i.e. his lecture on the subject of Loneliness ran on the devotional program of Fox Television for several years, baptized many converts to the Orthodox faith, and his picture and Christmas sermon has appeared  in the New York Times, to highlight  a few of the activities of his ministry.

Shortly after Father Arthur  Pappas' arrival in Greece in 1995, he met Metropolitan Kallinikos of Piraeus who assigned him as a full-time priest in Piraeus where he continues to serve the Church of Greece until 2007. Father Arthur and Eugenia Pappas live in Glyfada and have four children, Terry, Sophia, Artemis, and Anthony.