Elias Meniates

San Giorgio dei Greci

Elias ("Élie") Meniates ( Ηλίας Μηνιάτης ; * 1669 in Lixouri ; † August 1, 1714 in Patras ) was a university professor in Venice and Archbishop of Kernike and Kalavryta .

biography

Elias Meniates was born to the preacher Frangiskos Meniates and his wife Morezia. After attending school, he went to Venice in 1679 and was accepted into the Flaginianum seminar, where he studied philosophy, theology, Greek and Latin and later also taught. At the same time he worked as a preacher in the Greek Orthodox community of Venice, San Giorgio dei Greci, and was appointed notary of the Metropolitan of Philadelpheia. He later returned to Kefalonia, where he taught philosophy and Greek for seven years and worked as a preacher, after which he taught in Zaknythos. Around 1700 Antonio Molino (the Venetian governor of the Ionian Islands) invited him to Corfu to take over the education of his two nephews, but a year later he had to succeed the new Venetian ambassador to the Sublime Porte , Lorenzo Soranzo , as advisor and attaché Follow Constantinople. There he became a teacher of the Patriarchate School and returned to Kefalonia as a preacher of the Great Church. The Venetian governor Francesco Grimani called him to the Peloponnese , and he worked as a teacher and preacher in Nauplion and Argos . Supported by Grimani's successor, Marco Loredano, he was appointed Archbishop of Kernike and Kalavryta in 1711.

However, he died three years later. His body was transferred to Lixouri, where he was buried in St. John's Church.

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Meniates dealt with the main points of dispute in the dogmatic controversy between the Greek Orthodox and the Catholic Church and with the causes of this schism . A. Mazarakes published a complete edition of his works (Leipzig 1718). The work was published in Bratislava in 1752 with a Latin translation and in 1787 in Vienna with a German translation.

literature

• Georgios Fatouros :  Elias Meniates. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 1261-1263.