Nectarios of Aegina
Greek metropolitan slandered and deposed, who died a humble chaplain and was canonised forty years later.
- Contemporary era
- Greece
- Feast day November 9
- 1846 – 1920
- Bishop
- Monk
- Founder
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Born in Ottoman Thrace, Nectarios Kephalas became metropolitan of Pentapolis in the patriarchate of Alexandria, where his popularity bred jealousy: accused without evidence of coveting the patriarchal throne, he was deposed and sent back to Greece without explanation or trial. He lived twenty years as an itinerant preacher and then as director of a school of theology, never speaking a word against his accusers, and founded in 1904 the monastery of the Holy Trinity on Aegina. He died of cancer in an Athens hospital in 1920, was canonised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1961, and is today among the most prayed-to saints of the Orthodox world.
