Menas of Vatopedi

Menas of Vatopedi, a hieromonk, with the secular name Theophanes, son of Demetrius, was born in 1892 at Kutahya in Asia Minor. In 1903 he came to monasticism in the Vatopedi cell of Saints Constantine and Helen, where his brothers in the flesh, the monks Gabriel and Charalambos, also lived. He was tonsured a monk in 1909 and received the name Menas. In 1916 he was ordained deacon and in 1924 priest and made a confessor.

For decades he was the confessor of Vatopedi Monastery. He enjoyed great esteem from the fathers, being a very discerning confessor. At the end of his life he was cared for by the Vatopedi fathers. He reposed in the Lord in 1981. His bones, kept in the monastery ossuary, are amber-⁠yellow. The blessed hieromonk Eudokimos the Confessor (d. 2002), who continued his work with much discretion, patience and love, always spoke of this confessor with praise. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.