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Provlakas
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
This appears to have been founded in the 12th century16. It lay on the northern side of the Athos isthmus where the refugee village of Nea Roda now stands. During the 14th century it is known by the n... 
Ammouliani
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
The cluster of islands which lies to the west of Prosphorion (Figs 57, 58) was a metochi as early as the beginning of the 14th century14. It seems that it was used chiefly as grazing ground, despite t...
Prosphorion
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
The first known reference to a Vatopaidi metochi concerns “Prosphorion”. It was located in the region of today’s Ouranoupoli in Chalcidice. Until very recently this village preserved its old name. It ...
Introduction – The metochia in Greece, Asia Minor, Bulgaria and Serbia
Ioakeim A. Papaggelos
29 October 2011
A basic precondition for the survival of the Athonite monasteries was the possession of dependencies (metochia*): these were farmland, woodland, grassland and, sometimes, sea and lakes which belonged ...
The First Post-Byzantine Period (15th-16th Centuries)
Kriton Chrysochoidis
29 October 2011
The history of the Monastery in the post-Byzantine and modern periods should on no account be regarded as a finalised composition. It is no more than a first approach to and evaluation of a small part...
Prayer in the Monastery
29 October 2011
Prayer usually takes place in the katholikon at the times of common prayer in the services of the Midnight Office, Matins, the Canonical Hours, the Divine Liturgy, Vespers, and Compline.
Of cours...
The Administration of the Monastery
29 October 2011
The administration of the Monastery of Vatopaidi, like that of the other monasteries, is in the hands of its Abbot and its senior monks, who together make up the Council of Elders, that is, the Holy S...
The monastery in tradition and today
29 October 2011
A place of sanctity; a place of quietude for a life far from cares, ideal to distance the mind from the concerns of life which impede its ascent to another sphere of existence - close to the One who h...
Monk Moses the Athonite: “Scandal” for me is the non-unity of Holy Mount Athos
17 October 2011
Moses monk, the well known intellectual, has given an interview to the 24hour ecclesiastical news agency "Romfea.gr". We have visited his cell at Saint Panteleimon Skete of the Holy Mount Athos.
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