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'''Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina''' is a metropolis under the [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Church of Greece]]. The metropolis consists of a set of islands around the major islands of Hydra, Spetses, and Aegina located off the Peloponnese in the Aegean Sea south of Athens.

==Metropolitan==
The [[Metropolitan]] of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina is His Eminence, [[Ephraim (Stenakis) of Hydra|Ephraim (Stenakis)]], who was born in 1948 in Kypselis of Aegina. The date of his [[consecration of a bishop|consecration]] is [[January 14]], 2001.

==Past ruling hierarchs==
*Gerondas  c.2000
*Hierotheos (Tsantilis)   c.1975 - ?
*Procopius of Hydra and Spetses c. 1922[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorotheus_of_Athens]
*Ioasaph of Hydra and Spetses  c. 1910[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorotheus_of_Athens]

==Regions==
This metropolis is divided into seven regions.

==Monasteries==
#[[Holy Monastery of the Life-giving Fount (Poros, Greece)|Holy Monastery of the Zoodohos Pigis (Poros,Greece)]]
#Holy Monastery of the Prophet Elias (Hydra, Greece)
#Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity (Hydra, Greece)
#Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos [[Panagia Chrysoleontissis|Chrysoleontissis]] (Aegina, Greece)
#Holy Monastery of Ss. [[Anargyroi]] (Ermionis, Greece)
#Holy Monastery of All Saints (Spetses, Greece)
#Holy Monastery of St. Eupraxias "Dokou," (Hydra, Greece)
#Holy Monastery of the Birth of the Theotokos "Zourvas" (Hydra,Greece)

==Saints and monastics==
<gallery>
Image:Nektarios.jpg|St. '''[[Nektarios of Aegina|Nektarios]]''', Archbishop of Aegina and Pentapoleos
Image:Elder_Ieronymos_Patmos.jpg|Blessed Elder [[Ieronymos of Aegina]]
</gallery>
*[[Apostle Crispus|Apostle Krispos]]
*St. Leontios
*St. Leonidas the Troizinios
*St. Julios and Julianos
*St. Athanasia
*St. Theodora
*St. Theopisti
*St. Lukas the Stiriotis
*St. Dionysios of Aegina
*St. Makarios of Corinth
*St. Constantinos the Hydra
*Three Neo-martyrs from Spetses
*St. Savvas of Kalymnos

==External links==
*[http://www.imhydra.gr/ Holy Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aigina Official Website] (Greek)
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/English/EnDioceses/Ydra.html Holy Metropolis of Ydra, Spetsai and Aigina]

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