Kollyvades Fathers

Orthodox monk

saint in the Greek Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox ascetic

Eastern Orthodox mystic

Greek hieromonk and theologian

thumb The Kollyvades () were the members of a movement within the Eastern Orthodox Church that began in the second half of the eighteenth century among the monastic community of Mount Athos, which was concerned with the restoration of traditional practices and opposition to unwarranted innovations, and which turned unexpectedly into a movement of spiritual regeneration. As Metropolitan Kallistos Ware succinctly points out: