Panteleimon

Panteleimon of Simonopetra was a priest-⁠monk of the Monastery of Simonopetra on Mount Athos, born in 1922 at Markopoulo in Attica to Dionysios and Sophia Chasioti, with the worldly name Panagiotis, and reposed on 27 June 1987. He is venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization.

He came to Athos in 1941, to Simonopetra, where he entered the community. He was tonsured a rasophore in 1945, in the time of Archimandrite Charalambos. He was ordained priest in 1957 and became proistamenos in 1964. He was the youngest of the brotherhood of that time and suffered much in the hard years of war and shortage of men. He went through almost every obedience: cook, dochiarios, archontaris, gardener, forester, epitropos.

He was one of those who wished to repopulate the monastery with the brotherhood from Meteora. He met Father Justin and spoke to him about this idea, which was then carried out. Before the enthronement of the new abbot he received the great schema, in the Athonite rite. He sang beautifully and strongly, and his services were festal. The hymn It is truly meet, sung in the refectory, remained in the brotherhood's memory.