Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina
Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina is a metropolis under the jurisdiction of the Church of Greece. The metropolis consists of a set of islands around the major islands of Hydra, Spetses, and Aegina located off the Peloponnese in the Aegean Sea south of Athens.
Metropolitan=
The Metropolitan of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina is His Eminence, Ephraim (Stenakis), who was born in 1948 in Kypselis of Aegina. The date of his consecration is January 14, 2001.
=Past ruling hierarchs
- Gerondas c.2000
- Hierotheos (Tsantilis) ? - ?
- Procopius of Hydra and Spetses c. 1922[1]
- Ioasaph of Hydra and Spetses c. 1910[2]
Regions
This metropolis is divided into seven regions.
Monasteries
- Holy Monastery of the Zoodohos Pigis (Poros,Greece)
- Holy Monastery of the Prophet Elias (Hydra, Greece)
- Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity (Hydra, Greece)
- Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos Chrysoleontissis (Aegina, Greece)
- Holy Monastery of Ss. Anargyroi (Ermionis, Greece)
- Holy Monastery of All Saints (Spetses, Greece)
- Holy Monastery of St. Eupraxias "Dokou," (Hydra, Greece)
- Holy Monastery of the Birth of the Theotokos "Zourvas" (Hydra,Greece)
Saints and monastics
St. Nektarios, Archbishop of Aegina and Pentapoleos
Blessed Elder Ieronymos of Aegina
- Apostle Krispos
- St. Leontios
- St. Leonidas the Troizinios
- St. Julios and Julianos
- St. Athanasia
- St. Theodora
- St. Theopisti
- St. Lukas the Stiriotis
- St. Dionysios of Aegina
- St. Makarios of Corinth
- St. Constantinos the Hydra
- Three Neo-martyrs from Spetses
- St. Savvas of Kalymnos