Among the holy bishops who illuminated the firmament of the Church, there is a revered figure, the new holy bishop, Metropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia, who was recently canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate following a proposal by the Church of Greece.

This book by the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Saint Vlassios, Hierotheos, provides us with authentic testimony that the holy Metropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa was a great ecclesiastical figure with a holy life and holy ends. He was an ascetic bishop, a lord of love, with orthodox mindset and ecclesiastical ethos, with missionary zeal that won the love of his flock and adorned the Church of Christ.

Through his transformed life and regenerative word, he provided to all who knew him, as well as to future generations, the living example of a Christ-like life. His miraculous interventions, the numerous signs of his presence, and the many healings of illnesses testify "in deed and word" to his holiness.