Agiou Panteleimonos monastery
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Key facts
- Full name
- Holy Monastery of Agiou Panteleimonos
- Other names
- Rossikon
- Order
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
- Denomination
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Established
- 11th century
- Dedicated to
- St. Panteleimon
- Diocese
- Mount Athos
- Prior
- Eulogius (Ivanov)
- Status
- Monastery
- Functional status
- Active
- Style
- Byzantine (Athonite)
- Location
- Mount Athos , North Aegean , Greece
- Public access
- Men only
- Other information
- Russian (language)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- eastern orthodox monastery
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- monastic community of Mount Athos
- Population
- 67
- Image
- Agios Pandeleimon Clochers.jpg
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- Commons category
- Moni Agiou Panteleimonos (Athos)
- topic's main category
- Category:St. Panteleimon Monastery
- inception
- 1001-01-17
- described at URL
- odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/gh251.jsp?obj_id=1505
- native label
- Μονή Αγίου Παντελεήμονος
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Encyclopedic overview
Saint Panteleimon Monastery (Greek: Μονή Αγίου Παντελεήμονος, romanized: Moní Agíou Panteleímonos, Russian: Монастырь Святого Пантелеймона), also known as Rossikon (Greek: Ρωσσικόν, romanized: Rossikón Russian: Россикон) or New Russik (Greek: Νέο Ρωσικό, romanized: Neo Rosiko, Russian: Новый Руссик, romanized: Novyy Russik), is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos, located on the southwestern side of the peninsula of the North Aegean region of Greece. It is the Russian monastery on the peninsula. It houses Russian and Ukrainian monks, sent by the Russian Orthodox Church, and the liturgies are delivered in Russian, despite the fact that all monks on Mount Athos become citizens of Greece.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agiou Panteleimonos monastery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.