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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 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 ...
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 ...
The skete (a smaller, dependent monastic house) had its origins when Patriarch Athanasius II of Constantinople retired to Mount Athos in the mid fifteenth century after the Fall of Constantinople and settled in a Monastic House on the site of the old Monastery of Xistrou that was dedicated to St. Anthony the Great. [2]
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]
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.
A year later, he came to Mount Athos on the day of the Transfiguration of the Savior, celebrated at the summit of Mount Athos in the Chapel of the Transfiguration. There, he met Arsenios (also known as Arsenios the Cave Dweller ; b. 1886, d. 1983 [ 8 ] ), a monk at Stavronikita Monastery who would later become his disciple.
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