On August 10, 2018 Metropolitan Germanos of Theodoroupolis passed away at the age of 88. Known for his ascetic life, Metropolitan Germanos was born in the district of Makrochori (Bakirkioy) in Constantinople on September 17, 1930. After the Makrochori primary school, the future hierarch attended the Great School of the Nation in Constantinople, then high school at the School of Theology, where he graduated in 1954, after four years of