Nafpaktos Ierotheos: Memory of Fr. Ioannou Romanidistranslated

of the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Saint Blasios Hierotheos

25 years ago, on November 1, 2001, the feast of Saints Anargyri, he fell asleep in the Lord in front of the Holy Church of Agia Paraskeia, on Aeolos Street, near the Holy Church of Chrysospeliotissa, at the time he was preparing to light a candle, the top Dogmatic Theologian p. John Romanides, the Cappadocian and Prophet of Romanism, as a way of theology and life.

His life was a constant struggle for the restoration and living of the Orthodox tradition as Orthodox theology and Hesychasm. It met with many resistances and reactions, because from the 18th century onwards secularization entered the Orthodox Church in theology and life.

He got to know Orthodox theology and Orthodox hesychasm from his family environment, mainly from his mother who lived in the center of Manhattan, New York, very close to the place where the United Nations building is as an ascetic, and slept as a nun in the Holy Monastery of Sourotis, which Saint Paisios loved, then he learned about Orthodox theology from his first theological teacher, Fr. George Florovski, and then he learned about holy silence from a student of...