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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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
Mount Athos: The Holy Mountain. Filathonites. ISBN 978-0-473-41386-6. (a detailed multilingual map of Mount Athos in English, Greek, and Russian; also contains notes in German, French, Italian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Romanian) Thomas, Chris and Howorth, Peter (2022). Encounters on the Holy Mountain. ISBN 978-2-503-58911-4. (stories from Mount ...
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.