Category
page 1Kollyvades Fathers
Paisius Velichkovsky
Orthodox monk
Cosmas of Aetolia
saint in the Greek Orthodox Church
Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Greek Orthodox ascetic
Macarius of Corinth
Eastern Orthodox mystic

Athanasios Parios
Greek hieromonk and theologian
Kollyvades Movement
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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: