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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.
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.
Today, his tomb, enshrined in a chapel, can be visited at the northern edge of New Skete on Mount Athos. The hermitage of Saint Joseph the Hesychast, a hut on a cliff overlooking the sea, is located in a steep area with dense vegetation that is just north of Little Saint Anne's Skete .
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 ...
Around 1987, at the invitation of Vatopedi Monastery, part of the brotherhood of Elder Joseph settled in the monastery to support and help the remaining elderly Vatopedi monks. By decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1989, the entire brotherhood was transferred to the Monastery of Vatopedi, which was transformed from an ...
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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 ...
In the first months of 1491, he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople with the support of the monks of Mount Athos. [ 1 ] : 198 On his election, he changed his name to Maximus, an unparalleled case in the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate [ 2 ] because usually a monastic name is maintained throughout an ecclesiastic career.