Manuel Nin
{{Short description|Spanish Benedictine and Apostolic Exarch for Byzantine Rite Catholics in Greece}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = Manuel Nin
| image =
| bishop_of = Apostolic Exarch of Greece, Titular Bishop of Carcabia
| church = Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
| diocese =
| appointed = February 2, 2016
| enthroned =
| ended =
| predecessor = Dimitri Salachas
| successor =
| ordination =
| consecration = April 15, 2016
| consecrated_by = Dimitri Salachas
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|8|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = El Vendrell, Tarragona, Spain
| coat_of_arms = Escudo de Manuel Nin.svg
| honorific_prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend
| honorific_suffix = OSB
}}
Manuel Nin i Güell {{post-nominals|post-noms=OSB}} (born 20 August 1956) is a Spanish Catholic prelate who has served as Apostolic Exarch of Greece in the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church since 2016.{{cite web|work=Vatican Information Service|title=Other Pontifical Acts|date=2 February 2016}} He is a member of the Benedictines.
Life
Nin was born on August 20, 1956, in the town of El Vendrell in the Catalan province of Tarragona in Spain. He began his early studies in his hometown and completed them at the Colegio La Salle in Reus. After completing his studies, he entered the Abbey of Montserrat as a candidate on 20 September 1975, where he was received into the abbey's novitiate the following April. He professed temporary religious vows on 26 April 1977 and his solemn vows on 18 October 1980. He then began his studies toward his Baccalaureate in theology at the abbey's Theological School of Montserrat, during which time his concentration was on the classical languages of Latin, Greek and Syriac.{{cite web|url=http://www.abadiamontserrat.net/%28S%281qi3jaa35mmxyznnvvtrybwp%29%29/App_Themes/White/Documents/Noticies/castella/manuelninexarca.pdf|work=Abbey of Montserrat|title=El P. Manuel Nin, monje de Montserrat, nombrado obispo por el papa Francisco|access-date=2016-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317124035/http://www.abadiamontserrat.net/(S(1qi3jaa35mmxyznnvvtrybwp))/App_Themes/White/Documents/Noticies/castella/manuelninexarca.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-17|url-status=dead}}{{in lang|es}}
After completing those studies, in 1984 Nin was sent to study in Rome, where he pursued a licentiate in patristics at the Patristic Institute Augustinianum, with additional coursework at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and the Benedictine-run Pontifical Liturgical Institute, at the same time continuing his monastic formation at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm, an international center of studies for the Benedictine Order. He completed his coursework in 1987 and returned to his monastic community, where he was assigned to teach theology, patristics and an introduction to the Eastern Christian liturgy at his alma mater.
Nin returned to Rome in 1989 to work on his doctoral thesis. He completed his study of a Greek spiritual writer of the 5th or 6th century, titled John the Solitary: The Five Discourses on the Beatitudes, in late 1991 and successfully defended it the following January. He then stayed in Rome, teaching at the various institutes connected to his field of studies.
In 1994, Nin was named a consultor to the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, which supervises the interactions of these particular Churches with the Holy See. In January 1996, while still a religious brother, he was appointed to the staff of the Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius as a spiritual director for the school, where he then took up residence. Around this time, he decided to seek Holy Orders and was ordained a deacon in Rome on 22 November 1997. He was ordained to the priesthood on 18 April of the following year, by Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach, the Archbishop of Tarragona.{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bninm.html|work=Catholic Hierarchy|title=Father Manuel Nin, O.S.B.}} He was honored with the rank of archimandrite by the Melkite archbishop, Boutros Mouallem, S.M.S.P., the following year.
On 2 February 2016, Nin was appointed as Apostolic Exarch of Greece by Pope Francis, at the same time, being named the Titular Bishop of Carcabia.
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