Paparizos Antonis comes from Lagadas, Thessaloniki, where he finished high school. He studied Political Science at the Panteion University of Political Sciences in Athens. As a scholar of the French Government he completed postgraduate studies at Sorbonne-Paris I Panthéon and at the Center d'Analyse Comparative des Systèmes Politiques of the same University under the direction of M. Duverger: two postgraduate degrees in Political Sociology, Sociology and History. He was a PhD student of Paris 2, from which he was ipso facto acknowledged as a Lecturer in 1995. Since 1985 he has been teaching Sociology and Sociology of Religion at the Department of Sociology of the Panteion University. He is Emeritus Professor at Panteion University, where he teaches, among other subjects, mainly Sociology and Sociology of Religion.