Augustinos Andreas Kantiotis

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Augustinos Andreas Kantiotis ( Greek Αυγουστίνος Ανδρέας Καντιώτης Avgoustinos Andreas Kantiotis ; born April 20, 1907 in Piso Livadi , Paros , Greece ; † August 28, 2010 in Florina , Greece) was theologian, author and Greek Orthodox bishop and metropolitan of Florina.

Life

After graduating from high school on Syros, Andreas Kantiotis studied at the Theological School of the University of Athens from 1925 to 1929 . From 1929 to 1934 he was a teacher in the Cyclades . In 1934 he was appointed by the Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, Ierotheos (Paraskevopoulos) (1934–1961), to be his secretary based in Messolongi . From 1934 to 1941 he was also Proto syncellus of the metropolitan areas of Aetolia and Acarnania. In 1935 he was ordained a deacon and received the typical tonsure of the monk priest and the name Augustinos . In 1941 he moved to the metropolitan area of ​​Ioannina. In 1941/42 he was a prisoner of the Italian occupation forces. In 1942 he was ordained priest in Yannitsa through Panteleimo, the Metropolitan of Edessa and Pella . He moved to the metropolitan area of ​​Thessaloniki and worked in Kilkis, Veria, Edessa and Florina. From 1943 to 1945 he worked for Ioakim Apostolidis, the metropolitan of Kozani, who had fled to the mountains from the German occupiers. Despite persecution by the German Gestapo , he set up a soup kitchen there and served up to 8,150 meals a day.

From 1945 to 1947 he worked in the metropolitan area of ​​Grevena. From 1947 to 1950 he was a military pastor and preacher in the second brigade of the Greek army in Kozani. In 1950/1951 he served in the metropolitan area of ​​Karystia. In 1951, Archbishop Spyridon Blachos appointed him the first preacher of the Athens Metropolitan Area .

He was ordained Bishop of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia on June 25, 1967 . On January 14, 2000, he resigned from office. He died of kidney failure in a hospital in Florina.

He was the author of over 80 books on the spiritual life, several books have been translated into other languages. His sermons were also read in other Orthodox countries. He was considered a renewer of the Orthodox faith. Kantiotes was an advocate of the traditional Greek Orthodox faith. He was against ecumenism and very conservative. In 1952 he fought against hosting the Miss Greece competition.

Quote state and church

"If a financial control were carried out in the dioceses, no bishop would be spared prison."

literature

  • Angelos Giannakopoulos: The theological brotherhoods in Greece. Their work and their function with regard to the modernization and secularization of Greek society (= Europäische Hochschulschriften , 22; 336). Lang, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 1999, ISBN 3-631-34908-4 , pp. 327-332.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elder Augustine Kantiotis ( Memento of the original of August 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apostlepaulbookstore.org.au
  2. ↑ Diseased mind . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1973 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Kantiotis, Augustinos Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Καντιώτης, Αυγουστίνος (Greek); Kantiotes, Augoustinos N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek clergyman, Bishop of Florina
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Piso Livadi , Paros , Greece
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2010
Place of death Florina , Greece