father Dionysios Firfiris

Hierodeacon Father Dionysios Firfiris (of its civil name Dimitrios Koukos), an authentic interpreter of byzantine music, was born in 1912 in the village of Megali Panaya of Chalkidiki. At the age of eight, he came to Mount Athos, in 1920, in Karyes, exactly where his uncle, monk Charalambos, was living in the kelion of prophet Eliah, a dependance of the Koutloumousiou monastery. Here, near by monk Charalambos, he studied and learned sacred music developping the charism of his beautiful voice and imposing himself as a brillant follower of style