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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.
The ordination was attended by the then Metropolitan of Demetrias and later Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, the Civil Administrator of Mount Athos, Konstantinos Loulis, and the Protector of Mount Athos, Elder Theokletos Dionysiatis. In July 2009, after the death of Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, [6] [7] Archimandrite Ephraim became the spiritual ...
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 ...
Icon depiction the Theotokos giving her cincture to Thomas the Apostle.Below is a stylized representation of Mary's Tomb, with flowers lying on the sarcophagus.. The Cincture of the Theotokos is believed to be a relic of the Theotokos (Blessed Virgin Mary), now in the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos, which is venerated by the Holy Eastern Orthodox Church.
The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...
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.
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