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The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi (Greek: Βατοπέδι, pronounced [vatoˈpeði]) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos, Greece. The monastery was expanded several times during its history, particularly during the Byzantine period and in the 18th and 19th centuries. More than 120 monks live in the monastery.
After the storming of St. Panteleimon Monastery the monks from the skete of Saint Andrew surrendered voluntarily. The military transport Kherson was converted into a prison ship. It took 628 monks to Russia and on July 9 set sail to Odessa. Forty monks were left in the Mount Athos hospital, judged unable to survive the transportation.
The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, [4] [5] as well as the combined rights of a decentralized administration, a region, a regional unit and a municipality, with a territory encompassing the distal part of the Athos ...
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Florence, AZ: St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery. October 1999. ISBN 0-9667000-0-7. OCLC 48092045. Elder Joseph the Hesychast: struggles, experiences, teachings (1898-1959). Mount Athos, Greece: Holy Monastery of Vatopedi (Hiera Megistē Monē Vatopaidiou). 1999. ISBN 960-7735-12-9. OCLC 43865277. Kotsonis, Ioannikios (2003).
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The Athonias was founded in 1749 as a dependency of Vatopedi monastery [3] with the initiative and the financial support of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Cyril V. [4] The first building of the Athonias was erected on the top of a hill northeast of Vadopedi, [5] where its imposing ruins still exist today. [3]