Greece, December 20, 2023
Photo: greekcitytimes.com
His Eminence Metropolitan Alexandros of Mantineia and Kynouria reposed in the Lord yesterday, December 19.
Met. Alexandros, who served the Church as a hierarch for just under four decades, was 87. He had been facing health problems lately, reports Romfea.
Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Church to appear before court for sharp remarks concerning sodomyIn April 2016 the metropolitan of Mantineia spoke out sharply against Greek Parliament’s adopting of the law on free cohabitation: “Worst of all is that Parliament voted for laws which call perversion and depraved couplings of people of the same sex marriage.”
“>In 2016, he was sued for critical remarks about homosexuals in the context of the legalization of same-sex cohabitation in April of that year. However, the investigating committee found that no crime had been committed and all charges were dropped All charges dropped against metropolitan who criticized sodomyThe committee that had been investigating recent statements of Metropolitan Alexander of Mantineia and Kynouria has found that no crime was committed.”>in 2017.
His funeral will be served on Thursday in the Metropolitan Church of St. Basil in Tripoli.
May his memory be eternal!
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Met. Alexandros was born on October 28, 1936, in the village of Paparis in Arcadia. He graduated from the Ecclesiastical School of Corinth and then studied at the Theological School of the University of Athens. He also holds a Master’s degree in Orthodox Theology from the University of Cyprus.
He was ordained to the diaconate in 1968 and the priesthood in 1969.
He was elected Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios in May 1984. He established a priest’s training school and launched the diocesan journal the following year. In 1986, he established a school of Byzantine music.
In January 1995, he was elected Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria.
In 2016, he was a member of the Church of Greece’s delegation to the Council of Crete.
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