Famous theologian from Greece is to visit Kiev again

One of the most famous and authoritative hierarchs of the Hellenic Orthodox Church, a well-known theologian specializing in bioethics, Metropolitan of Mesogaea and Lavraetioka Nicholaos plans to visit Kiev again in the autumn of this year, reports Foma.

Vladyka recently spoke about it with the executive director of the charitable foundation "Orthodox Heritage of Ukraine on the Holy Mount Athos" Andrei Us at a meeting in the Greek city of Spata.

Recently the book of Metropolitan Nicholaos "Athos – the highest point of the Earth" was published in the Ukrainian language. The author thanked the translator of the book for the work done and appreciated the design and style of the publication.

Metropolitan Nicholaos graduated from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the past he was an astrophysicist, an employee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (for a long time he worked at NASA, author of a number of inventions). Then – Athos monk, now – the bishop, the head of the Committee on Bioethics at the Holy Synod of the Helladic Orthodox Church, the author of the book "Holy Mountain – the highest point of the Earth".

Vladyka Nicholaos visited the capital of Ukraine in the autumn of 2016. On October 30, at the Sobornaya Gallery at the newly-built UOC Cathedral in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, he gave a lecture on "Pain, Suffering, Death: A Christian View," and answered a number of diverse questions from listeners.

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