Sofronios of Koutloumousiou

Sofronios of Koutloumousiou, a hieromonk, with the secular name Spyridon Trivizas, son of Anthony and Chrysanthi, was born in 1901 in the village of Agros on Corfu. He was tonsured a monk at the Paleokastritsa monastery in 1923. He came to Koutloumousiou Monastery in 1925. In 1926 he was tonsured into the great schema. He was ordained deacon at the monastery's second feast, on 17 January 1927, and priest at the first and great feast of the Transfiguration, on 6 August 1927. As abbot of the monastery, from 1967, he lived as one of the simple servants. The older fathers relate that, although they pressed him, he never stayed in the abbot's quarters. He had a small, run-⁠down cell. He lit the lamp of the abbot's quarters so that it could be seen from Karyes that someone lived there.

A genuine man of God, honest and pure. A lover of services to the end. When he could not go down to the katholikon, he read the double service in his cell. Very humble. Industrious. He reached the point of not eating even his own food, in order to give it as alms. At the end he remained bedridden from illnesses. He read there in bed the whole daily service, since he could no longer go down to the katholikon. He foresaw and foretold his end. He had said that he would not live to keep Christmas. So it was. After receiving the holy and most pure mysteries he fell asleep the sleep of the righteous on 22 December 1977. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.