Short Biography of the Late Metropolitan of Berat, Ignatios

Short Biography of the Late Metropolitan of Berat, Ignatios

The late Metropolitan of Berat, Vlora and Kanina, His Eminence Ignatios (Triantis), was an Arvanite of origin from Thebes, where he was born in 1934. He was proficient in the Albanian language.

He studied at the Patmiada Ecclesiastical School, as well as at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens. He also graduated from the Conservatory of Piraeus.

He served as a preacher and lay teacher at the Holy Archdiocese of Athens. In 1967, he was ordained a deacon and priest by the Metropolitan of Thebes and Livadeia, Nikodimos, and served as a priest at the Cathedral Church and as Archpriestly Vicar of Thebes (1967-1972). He was also Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Saint Loukas in Livadeia (1968-1976) and of the Holy Monastery of Saint Seraphim in Domvous (1975-1996), a preacher (1972-1992), and a spiritual father of this Metropolis (1962-1996).

He authored the three-volume collection “The Monk’s Poems” and the books “Humility According to the Holy Scripture and the Church Fathers”, while for his last book, “The Elder of Patmos, Hieromonk Amphilochios Makris”, he was honored by the Academy of Athens.

On June 24, 1992, he was elected Metropolitan of Berat, Vlora, and Kanina by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He was ordained a bishop on June 27, 1996, and was enthroned by His Beatitude, Archbishop Anastasios, on July 18, 1998, in Berat.