Augoustinos Kantiotes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Greek bishop
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Place of Birth: Piso Livadi, South Aegean, Greece
About Augoustinos Kantiotes
- Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes (Greek: ?????st???? ?a?t??t??, 20 April 1907 – 28 August 2010) was the Greek Orthodox bishop of Florina.
- He was born in Paros in village of Piso Livadi.Kantiotes was a defender of traditional Greek Orthodox beliefs.
- He was a writer of spiritual literature and is credited for the spiritual renewal of Greece, and the establishment of traditional Orthodox theology.
- He preached countless sermons, which have been recorded and distributed worldwide.
- For many years he was at the forefront of the anti-ecumenism movement; he believed that ecumenism contradicted the basic principles of Greek Orthodoxy.
- Kantiotes is known for his conservative activism and ideals; in 1952, he was the leader of a 1500-strong group that protested the "Miss Greece" pageant, denouncing what he saw to be an "exhibition of naked bodies", a "scandal" and an "orgy".
- Despite support from the Holy Synod of the Greek Church, he was unsuccessful in his campaign to ban beauty pageants; in fact, the 1952 pageant was attended by many, including former prime minister Konstantinos Tsaldaris, who was a prominent conservative politician, and the Athens Police Chief at the time.
- Bishop Augoustinos also denounced the neo-paganism which he saw as implicit in the use of the Olympic flame.
- Augoustinos, who published over 80 books in Greek, of which over 25 have appeared in English, and other languages, was known as a classic writer, in the English speaking world of Orthodox Christianity.Kantiotes died on 28 August 2010 of renal failure while in hospital in Florina for a stroke.
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