Trader, (Hieromonk) Alexios

1. Entity type Person
2. Birth place Dover, Delaware
3. Gender Name Male
4. Biographical Data

   1. Fr Alexis Trader ( Karakallinos) was born in USA. He studied chemistry and religious studies in the University of Chicago from where he received also his master degree on Mircea Eliade and Martin Buber’s thought. He became a monk firstly at the St Tikhon’s Russian Orthodox Monastery(1988) and since 1996 at the Monastery of Karakallou on the Mount Athos. He is an Orthodox Christian priest and monk who has had the opportunity not only to investigate ascetic literature for a period of over twenty years, but also to observe and test how those teachings can be put into practice today by those living in monasteries as well as by individuals struggling in contemporary society. His considerable monastic experience in the ancient monastic republic of Mount Athos and elsewhere has furnished him with a psychologically and existentially relevant hermeneutical context for a renew approach to patristic texts. Father Alexis received his PhD summa cum laude in theology from the University of Thessalonica in Greece and his MA in divinity from the University of Chicago. He is the author of books in Greek and English as well as a translator of a number of Greek theological and pastoral works.