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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...
The Metochia in Roumania – Introduction
Florin Marinescu
29 October 2011
Throughout their long-term development over the centuries, the relations of the monasteries of the Holy Mountain with the Romanian Principalities, and especially with Moldavia and Wallachia, were very...
Porto Lagos
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
This metochi was dedicated to the Sts Theodore and had rights over the lake and the fish farm. The Despot of Serres, Ivan Ugles, seized the lake and gave the Monastery 120 hyperpyra* each year in lieu...
The Metochi in Athens
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
In 1758 the parishioners of St Demetrius the Younger donated to the Monastery, through the Metropolitan of Athens Anthimos, the Chapel of St Kyriaka. At a later time the neighbouring plot of “300 pace...
The Monastery of the Aghioi Anargyroi near Drama
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
This was located in the area of present-day Kormista, on Pangaio, and was ceded to Vatopaidi by the Emperor Alexius Comnenus in 108634. It remained in the Monastery’s possession at least until 134835....
The Metochia in Kassandra
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
On this peninsula the Monastery possessed two basic dependencies: that of Aghioi Theodoroi, also known as the “land of the Lions” 29, and that of Aghios Dimitrios30. The former was most probably locat...
Souflari
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
This was the property of Saul Modiano of Thessaloniki, from whom it was purchased by the Monastery in 1905. On it was built the large metochi complex - a part of it is still standing today - and the s...
Ormylia
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
By 1307 there already existed the nucleus of a dependency in the locality of Ormylia, in Chalcidice. It seems that, originally, the chief function of the metochi was to provide winter accommodation fo...
Aghios Mamas
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
The first known reference to Vatopaidi possessions in the village of Aghios Mamas in Chalcidice dates from 1301. Owing to the upheavals of the mid 14th century, Vatopaidi was obliged to construct a fo...