Agapios Papantonopoulos

Agapios Papantonopoulos, also called Agapios the Younger (in the world Antonios Antonopoulos), was a Greek cleric and teacher from Dimitsana in Arcadia (1753 to 1812). The Greek source calls him a saint of the Orthodox Church and gives the day of 24 December, but it does not say when or by whom he was proclaimed, so his status as a saint remains unspecified.

He was born at Dimitsana and studied there, with teachers Agapios Leonardos and Gerasimos Gounas. When the school closed at the time of the Orlov events, Agapios followed Gerasimos Gounas to Smyrna, where he continued his studies at the famous school of the city, headed by Hierotheos Dendrinos. Later he became a monk, with the name Agapios.

He then went to Chios and returned to Dimitsana, where in 1781 he took over the direction of the school. He served at the school for thirty-⁠two years as scholarch. He died in 1812, at the age of fifty-⁠nine.