Established end of 10th century Location Mount Athos, Greece Phone +30 2377 023678 Dedicated to Annunciation | Founder(s) Blessed Philotheus Address Agio Oros 603 86, Greece Diocese Mount Athos | |
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Full name Holy Monastery of Philotheou Prior Archimandrite Elder Nicodemus Important associated figures St Theodosius, Metropolitan of Trebizond; Abbot Dionysios (Blessed Dionysios of Olympus); Cosmas of Aetolia; Elder Efrem of Philotheou (Arizona) (b. 1928) Similar Karakalou monastery, Koutloumousiou monastery, Xeropotamou Monastery, Stavronikita monastery, Konstamonitou monastery | ||
Philotheou monastery mount athos
Filotheou monastery (Greek: Μονή Φιλοθέου) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It stands on the north-eastern side of the peninsula.
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History
It was founded by the Blessed Philotheus, in the end of the 10th century. The monastery ranks twelfth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
By the end of the 15h century, according to the Russian pilgrim Isaiah, the monastery was Albanian.
In 1539-1540 the monastery was renovated with funds from the Georgian kings, Levan of Kakheti and his son Alexander II of Kakheti, frescos of whom are depicted in the refectory.
The library holds 250 manuscripts, and 2500 printed books (of which 500 are in Russian and Romanian).
The monastery contains 60 working monks.
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