Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain has been canonized (he is now officially a saint of the Church). The announcement came from the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Tuesday, January 13, 2015.
To read the article by Fr. Panayiotis “My encounter with saint Paisios in 1986” click here: https://holytransfiguration.info/our-faith/the-lives-of-holy-saints/my-encounter-with-st-paisios/