Elias Miniatis

1669–1714 · Greek Orthodox · Venice, Cephalonia and Kernitsa

Elias Miniatis (1669–1714) was a Greek Orthodox preacher of the Ionian Islands who taught at the Flanginian College in Venice and preached there and in Constantinople before becoming Bishop of Kernitsa and Kalavryta in 1711. His Didachai, Lenten and festal sermons in the spoken Greek of his day, were printed posthumously at Venice in 1716 and reprinted continuously for two centuries. He is generally reckoned the finest Greek preacher of the years of Ottoman rule.