Augoustinos Kantiotes
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Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes (born 1907) is Greek Orthodox bishop of Florina.
Kantiotes is a defender of traditional Greek Orthodox beliefs. He is a writer of spiritual literature and is credited for the spiritual renewal of Greece, and the establishment of traditional Orthodox theology. He has preached countless sermons which have been recorder and distributed worldwide. For many years he was at the forefront of the anti-ecumenism movement which he believed contradicted the basic principles of Greek Orthodoxy. Today Metropolitan Augoustinos who has published over 80 books in Greek, of which over 25 have appeared in English, and other languages, is known as a classic writer, in the English speaking world of Orthodox Christianity.