Vatopedi Portrait

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Sevastias Gerasimos

He governed the fiefdoms of Romania as Abbot and Exarch. Appointed by the Monastery, he renovated the catholicon of the Golia Monastery...

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Symeon (Synessius) Greek

Among the clergy and scholars who wanted to live a life of more accurate repentance in the quiet of Mount Athos...

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James, Bishop of Trajanopolis

He was a scholar from Astypalaia, a monk who lived in the Vatopedi Monastery. In 1810 he served as an assistant to Gregory of Ireneopolis in...

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Metropolitan Gregory of Laodicea

The previous Gregory of Vatopedi served as abbot of the Golia Monastery and the first abbot of the Monastery of Saint Nicholas Myra in...

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Meletios, Prior of Vatopedi

He was the vicar of the Greek Community in Vienna and was the initiator of the foundation on the hill outside the Monastery of...

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Philotheos Parianos

The previous Philotheos from Paros served as the custodian of the Monastery in the early 19th century. The name and...

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Archimandrite Joseph of Peloponnese the Teacher

Brother of the previous abbot Meletios. He lived in the monastery in the second half of the 18th century. He served as a teacher of the children of...

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Metropolitan Sophrony of Ireneopolis

The previous Sofronios is the first general commissioner of the Vatopedi shares in Romania who is known to have...