Our venerable and God-bearing Father Athanasius Parios, known as "Master of the Greek Nation," was a hieromonk who was a great and eminent theologian, philosopher, educator, and hymnographer of his time. He was the second leader of the Kollyvades movement, succeeding Neophytos Kausokalyvites (1713-1784). He also authored the lives of various saints. Athanasius was born around in Kostos, a small village of Paros, in the year 1721/22 and died in Chios in 1813. He is commemorated by the Church on June 24.