Saint Nectarios of Aegina · Metropolitan of Pentapolis

Sources & Editorial Method

How historical claims, devotional testimony, church-directory entries and images are verified.

Source hierarchy

  1. Primary and institutional: Saint Nectarios’s own works, Rizarios records, monastery records, patriarchal/synodal documents.
  2. Official Orthodox: patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses and parish directories.
  3. Serious secondary scholarship: used with attribution.
  4. Devotional testimony: important for reception history, but labelled as testimony.
  5. Unverified internet material: used only as a lead until independently confirmed.

Core online resources currently used

Corrections

Dates and details sometimes differ between biographies. Rather than silently choosing one, the site will state which source is being followed and flag material discrepancies.