Ilias Miniatis

Elias ( " Elie " ) Meniates ( Ηλίας Μηνιάτης; * 1669 in Lixouri; † August 1, 1714 in Patras ) was a high school teacher in Venice, archbishop of Kernike and Kalavryta.

Biography

Elias Meniates was born the son of the preacher and his wife Frangiskos Meniates Morezia. After attending school, he went to Venice in 1679 and was admitted to the seminary Flaginianum, where he studied philosophy, theology, Greek and Latin, and later taught. At the same time he worked as a preacher in the Greek Orthodox community of Venice, San Giorgio dei Greci and where he was appointed as a notary of the Metropolitan of Philadelpheia. Later he returned to Cephalonia, where for seven years he taught philosophy and Greek and was a preacher, after he taught in Zaknythos. In 1700, Antonio Molino ( the Venetian governor of the Ionian Islands ) invited him to Corfu in order to take over the education of his two nephews, but a year later he had the new Venetian ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Lorenzo Soranzo, as a counselor and attaché after Konstantin Opel follow. There he became a teacher of the school and patriarchy but a preacher of the Great Church returned to Cephalonia. The Venetian governor Francesco Grimani appointed him to the Peloponnese, and he worked as a teacher and preacher in Nauplion and Argos. From successor Grimani, Marco Loredano supported, he was appointed in 1711 to the Archbishop of Kernike and Kalavryta.

However, he died three years later. His body was transferred to Lixouri, where he was buried in St. John's Church.

Work

Meniates dealt with the main sticking points of dogmatic controversy between the Greek Orthodox and the Catholic Church as well as the causes of this schism. A. mazarakes was a complete edition of his works out (Leipzig 1718). The work has been published in Bratislava in 1752 with a Latin translation in 1787 and in Vienna with German translation.