“Phanar—A new saint has been recognized by the Orthodox Church. In a Wednesday August 31, 2022 ceremony at the Patriarchal Church of St. George, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed the synodal act of the canonization of Saint Vissarion the Agathonite, together with the hierarchs of the Holy Synod, who approved the canonization (Αγιοκατάταξης) on June 14, 2022, after a report of a synodal committee on canonization was presented.

“Saint Vissarion the Agathonite was a clergyman of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotida and a brother of the Holy Dormition Monastery of Agathon at the foot of Mount Oiti. He was born Andrew Korkoliakos in 1908 in Petalidi, Messinia, Greece. At the age of 18 he went to Kalamata where he met various spiritual figures and resolved to become a clergyman, and was soon tonsured a monk, receiving the name Vissarion. Shortly thereafter, he was was ordained to the diaconate and later a priest, and honored with the offikion of Archimandrite…”

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