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The Monastery of Rachitoasa in the Prefecture of Bacau Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 In 1677 the Great Kloutsiaris Enake built a small wooden church in the region of St Parasceva, which later became the cemetery church. In 1697 the son of the Kloutsiaris, the Great Spatharis Ilias En...
The Skete of Provitsa in the Prefecture of Prachova Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This skete was erected in the 17th century (before 1649) by the priest-monk Germanos27. In 1704 it was already a metochi of Vatopaidi28. It was rebuilt in 1834-1835 as the church of the village of Upp...
The Monastery of Precista at Foxani Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This monastery was erected by the Voivode Nikolaos Mavrocordatos, as is recorded in the inscription which is preserved in the vestibule, during the period of his rule in Moldavia (1709-1715), and it w...
The Monastery of Precista at Galatsi Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 The Monastery of Precista at Galatsi was built on the foundations of an old church dedicated to the Virgin and built before 1641 of wood and bricks. Its founder was the Galatsi merchant Theodore, who ...
The Monastery of Our Lady at Orasul de Floci Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This monastery was built before 1630, since documents in the Romanian archive inform us that it was a metochi of the Monastery of Vatopaidi23. For the present, these documents constitute the only cert...
The Monastery of Myra (Mira or Miera or Mera) in the Prefecture of Vrantsia Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 The monastery began to be built in wood towards the end of the 1682 or early in 1683 by Nikiphoros Motzok, a resident of the village of Odombesti, and his wife Ursa, with the assistance of the Bishop ...
The Monastery of Barboiu in Jassy Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 Built at the beginning of the 17th century by the Great Vornik Ursu Barboi, it was dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In 1669 the descendants of the vornik, of the Sturza family, turned it...
The Skete of Crainici or Crasnitta or Cranita or Lespezi in the Prefecture of Tekuci Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 The founder of this skete was Ilias Katartziou18. Before 1749 the skete was dedicated to the Myra Monastery. In that year, seeing that the monastery was in a state of decline, the Pacharnik Constantin...
The Monastery of Saint Nicholas (Sfântul Nicolae) in Orasul de Floci Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This monastery was established before 1628. In that year not only had it been built, but it was already a metochi of the Monastery of Vatopaidi7. Details of its historical development remain unknown ...
The Monastery of St Demetrius (Sfântul Dumitru) in Galatsi Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This monastery was built before 1641 and probably its erection was related to the arrival in Moldavia of the relics of Saint Parasceva (in the presence of the Ecumenical Patriarch Makarios), whose pro...
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