Metropolitan Nektarios following the steps of St Luke of Crimea

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