Metropolitan
Nektarios following the steps of St Luke of Crimea
Amazing man,
Metropolitan Nektarios (Antonopoulos)! More than fifteen years ago, he came to
the Crimea and learned about Saint Luke. I was imbued with the deepest respect
for him, began to study his life, works, and then he himself wrote a book about
the saint in Greek.The book sold out, the Greeks accepted and loved our saint
as their own. And Vladyka (then still Archimandrite) Nektarios began to come
every year and not only to the Crimea, but also to Ukraine, to Russia, taking a
keen interest in our life. "In the footsteps" of St. Luke, he drove
to the most northern reaches, visited the remote corners of the Krasnoyarsk
diocese. For Slavic children, Archimandrite Nektarios annually organized feasts
in Orthodox camps in Greece. For several years my eldest daughter, Sophia, also
went to such camps. When she graduated from school, Father Nektarios helped her
to enter the University of Athens, and now she is studying with another Crimean
girl - Masha, on weekends she comes to Nafplion, where Vladyka serves, participates
in divine services ... gathered close friends, invited our girls, and here they
were sitting at the table, dined, talked and sang songs. And this simplicity,
natural availability of Vladyka, despite all his busyness and immersion in
business, amazes and conquers me. May God grant health to Vladyka and his many
children!
Priest Dmitri Shishkin
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