Athanasius Hamakiotis

Venerable Athanasius Hamakiotis (1891-1967) was a Greek spiritual father of Attica, parish priest at Marousi and founder of the women's monastery of Panagia Faneromeni in Rodopoli, loved for the beauty with which he served the Divine Liturgy and for his almsgiving.

He was born in 1891 in a mountain village of Kalavryta, Greece, and was baptized George. He entered a monastery at fifteen, and seven years later was tonsured a monk with the name Athanasius. He was ordained deacon at twenty-⁠five and priest in 1921, at thirty. For a long time he served as priest of the old church of Panagia Neratziotissa in Marousi, then founded the monastery of Panagia Faneromeni in Rodopoli, where he passed to the Lord on 17 August 1967. He gave to all out of his love and mercy, especially in hard times.

The Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate numbered him among the saints on 17 November 2023, and the act was signed on 18 December 2023. He is celebrated on 17 August (new style) and, for the translation of his relics, on 23 October.