Metropolitan of Argolis Nektarios

Nektarios , born Ioannis Antonopoulos (; born January 1, 1952) is a Eastern Orthodox priest who is the Metropolitan of Argos since 2013.

Biography

Antonopoulos was born Ioannis Antonopoulos on January 1, 1952, in Marousi, Greece. He attended the School of Theology at the University of Athens; after his military service he was tonsured a monk and ordained a deacon in 1976. In 1977 he resided at the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration near Thebes, Greece. In 1983 he was ordained a presbyter and served under the Metropolis of Thebes and Livadeia as a preacher and head of the youth department. In 1991, he replaced the abbot of the Holy Monastery of Transfiguration, Archimandrite Nicodemus Badaloukas, due to the former resigning due to illness. Antonopoulos was elected on 18 October 2013 by the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece as Metropolitan of Argolis; he was enthroned on 24 November 2013, at the Metropolitan Church of Saint George in Nafplio. That same year he was awarded the Order of Merit of Ukraine in the third degree.

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