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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.
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).
Notable monks who lived at the skete include St. Joseph the Hesychast and his brotherhood, including disciples Arsenios the Cave Dweller, Ephraim of Arizona, and Joseph of Vatopedi. [4] The hermitage of St. Joseph the Hesychast can be reached via a narrow footpath through a forest, which branches off from the main path connecting Little St ...
Elder Joseph of Vatopedi (or Joseph of Vatopaidi, Greek: Ιωσήφ ο Βατοπαιδινός, also known as Joseph the Younger; [1] Paphos District, Cyprus, 1 July 1921 – Vatopedi, Mount Athos, 1 July 2009) was a Greek Cypriot Orthodox Christian monk and elder. [2] He was one of the primary disciples of St. Joseph the Hesychast at Mount Athos.
The Skete of Saint Andrew, also the Skete of Apostle Andrew and Great Anthony or Skiti Agiou Andrea in Karyes is a monastic institution on Mount Athos. It is a dependency of Vatopedi Monastery and is the site of the Athonias Ecclesiastical Academy. [1]
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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Subsequently, in April 1990, on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers, Hieromonk Ephraim was promoted to Archimandrite and ordained as Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi. The ordination was attended by the then Metropolitan of Demetrias and later Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens , the Civil Administrator of Mount Athos , Konstantinos Loulis ...