Sister Theoktisti

Sr. Theoktisti studied Psychology and Philosophy, finishing with a thesis in Psychology, and Diploma in Social Studies (Oxford University). She pursued a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (University of Bath, England) and in Theology (Trier in Germany), as well as a Licentiate and Ph.D. in liturgical studies from the Pontifical University of San Anselmo in Rome. She has been an Orthodox nun since 1998, originally in the monastery of the Apostle Paul in Lavrio and subsequently in the monastery of St. John the Forerunner in Anatoli, since July 2000, when the community started the restoration of the historical sixteenth-century monastery.