![]() Greek Independence had started there with Bishop Germanos Declaring Independence with his blessing of the troops. His early schooling was in the Church of Panagia Trypiti that is built inside a cavity of the cliff just 150 stair steps above the Port of Egio and he helped the Priests with all their duties, occasionally traveling into the local mountains to visit Agia Lavras Monastery, about 20 miles south and up in the mountains. Two-thirds of the population had vanished and the land was devastated. The era after Greek Independence was wrought with economic problems and the Armenians and Bulgarians had replaced the Ottomans as bankers and merchants, allowing our young Theos to become ever more acquainted with other cultures. Theodorus grew up fishing with his father, and spending time around the port while his mother (a native of the Peloponnese Peninsula) pushed him to the Church. Hiero theos, the Student of Saint Paul, the Apostle, who in 53 A.D. They called him “Theos” and he celebrated his Name Day each September 22nd (Julian Calendar in the 1800’s), on the Feast Day of St. Eight years later, when Independence was achieved (with great help from the Allied Russian, English and French Forces) he settled in Egio (one of the oldest cities in the Balkans), Peloponnese Peninsula, Greece.īorn in November of 1833, young Theodoros was named for the famed Greek General. ![]() When the first outbreaks of Greek Independence from the Ottoman Empire started on the Peloponnese Peninsula, his father, a fisherman crossed onto the peninsula to join the forces of famed Greek General Theodoros Kolokotronis, also an Athenian. I have studied everything I can find on this wonderful Priest over the years, including his Last Will, the Galveston Daily News archives, Immigration Records, the Rosenberg Public Library of Galveston, the Church records (Slavonic, long-hand written in Cyrillic), the Internet and greatly on the local “folklore” stories told of him. Theoclitos and was very proud to tell people of that fact until her death in 2001. I live in Galveston, and I have been a part of the Church congregation since Baptism. It has been saved from “Hurricane IKE’s Destruction” (September 12, 2008), and will hang there again when the new hall is constructed soon. The picture did hang with Honor in the Church Congregation Hall of Saints Constantine and Helen Church in Galveston, Texas. ![]() He was the first Orthodox Priest in Texas. Theoclitos Triantafilides is the only one I am aware of. This picture of the Right Reverend, Most Venerable Archimandrite, Fr. ![]()
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