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The Holy Monastery of Agiou Pavlou (St Paul) 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded shortly before 980 and was called St Paul's or Xeropotamou. The founder seems to have been the prominent monk Paul, who also founded the Monastery of St Nicephoros, also, and...
The Holy Monastery of Filotheou 5 November 2011 This monastery is first mentioned in 1013, recorded as the “Monastery of Pteres”. Two years later is mentioned by its present name, which to be that of the founder. In the 16th century abbot was the S...
The Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou Monk Chariton of Karoulia 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded in 956 and is the oldest surviving monastery on Mount Athos. Due to the unstable ground on which the monastery is built, it has suffered and is still suffering serious damage...
The Holy Monastery of Docheiariou Monk Chariton of Karoulia 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded in the early 11th century (before 1013) near present-day Dafni, and was dedicated to St Nicholas. A few decades later it was moved to approximately its present position and a...
The Holy Monastery of Zographou 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded shortly before 980, apparently by an iconographer named George, zographos meaning painter. The tradition of accepting Bulgarian monks at Zographou had already begun in Byzant...
The Holy Monastery of Pantokratoros Monk Chariton of Karoulia 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded in 1357 by the brothers Alexios and John, respectively high military and civil officers of the Byzantine empire. The Katholikon, dedicated to the Transfiguration, was inrik a...
The Holy Monastery of Koutloumousiou Monk Chariton of Karoulia 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded before 1169, when it is first mentioned in records. During the second half of the 14th century, when Chariton of Imbros was abbot, the monastery was generously endowed and re...
The Holy Monastery of Dionysiou Monk Chariton of Karoulia 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded shortly after 1370 by St Dionysios of Korysos near Kastoria, with funds provided by the emperor of Trebizond Alexios III Comnenos. The 25 metre-high tower was built in 1520, ...
The Holy Monastery of the Great Lavra Monk Chariton of Karoulia 5 November 2011 The monastery was founded by the reformer of Athonite monasticism St Athanasios around 963, with money provided by the emperor Nicephoros Phocas. It stands first in the hierarchy of Athonite monasteri...
Samos – The metochia in Greece, Asia Minor, Bulgaria and Serbia Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 4 November 2011 In 1772 the Church of the Annunciation was built as a dependency church of Vatopaidi. In addition, a few small plots of land were also donated. The metochi continues to belong to the Monastery. Apart...
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