Elder Symeon, Abbot of Grigoriou Monastery (+1905)

A man blessed by God, Spyridon Angelidis, as he was before his tonsure, was born in Tripoli in the Peloponnese in 1830. In 1852 he arrived at the Monastery of Ayiou Pavlou with three friends. According to Abbot Serafeim, who died in 1960: ‘Casting off all secular care for material things, he devoted himself with zeal and self-denial to the service of the abbot and the other fathers, and having been tested in a variety of duties, was renamed Symeon’. Thereafter he was ordained deacon and served in the secretariat of the monastery. He then completed his studies at the Athoniada Academy and served in the secretariat of the Holy Community. Read more: