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FOUNDATION & DEDICATION DATES OF THE MONASTERIESIn this table the monasteries are listed in order of their foundation together with their dedication and the date of its celebration according to the Julian calendar (after Hasluck, pp. 19-20):
| 963 | Great Lavra | St. Athanasios the Athonite (5 July) |
| 976 | Iviron | Dormition (15 August) |
| after 972 | Vatopedi | Annunciation (25 March) |
| before 992 | Philotheou | Annunciation (25 March) |
| c. 1030 | Xeropotamou | Forty Martyrs (9 March) |
| early 11th c. | Esphigmenou | Ascension |
| before 1046 | Dochiariou | Archangels Michael & Gabriel (8 November) |
| c. 1050 | St Paul's | Purification (2 February) |
| c. 1070 | Karakalou | Sts Peter & Paul (29 June) |
| c. 1070 | Xenophontos | St. George (23 April) |
| c. 1086 | Konstamonitou | St. Stephen (27 December) |
| 1081-1118 | Koutloumousiou | Transfiguration (6 August) |
| before 1169 | St Panteleimonos | St. Panteleimon (27 July) |
| 1197 | Chilandari | Presentation (21 November) |
| c. 1270 | Zographou | St. George (23 April) |
| before 1363 | Pantokratoros | Transfiguration (6 August) |
| 1363 | Simonopetra | Nativity (25 December) |
| 1375 | Dionysiou | St. John the Baptist (24 June) |
| 1341-91 | Grigoriou | St. Nicholas (6 December) |
| 1541 | Stavronikita | St. Nicholas (6 December) |
This is a directory for MAILING ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE and FAX only; it does not include e-mail addresses. The monasteries of Mount Athos do not currently use e-mail as a regular means of communication with the general public. If any of the monasteries do, in fact, have e-mail, The Friends of Mount Athos are not currently privy to that information, and we respect the rights of the monasteries to maintain their separation from "the world" and worldly SPAM by not announcing their e-mail addresses.
| MAILING ADDRESSES | IERA MONI [NAME OF MONASTERY]
GR 63086 Karyai, Agion Oros Hellas (Greece) |
Vatopedi Monastery:
From North America:
011-30-23770-41488
From Europe:
00-30-23770-41488
If hours of service are not given, please observe appropriate hours as indicated
by the hours listed for other monasteries and sketes.
Plan on calling the offices during morning hours only (10:00 - 13:00) if hours are not specified.
23770 41488
| KARYES OFFICES | TEL. NO. | HOURS OF
TEL. SERVICE | FAX NO. |
| Holy Community
& Holy Epistasia | 23221 | 23315 (archigrammateus) | |
| Civil governor | 23230 | ||
| Doctor | 23217 | ||
| Police | 23212 | ||
| Post office | 23214 |
| |
| ___________________ | _______ | ______________ | _______
|
| DAPHNI OFFICES | TEL. NO. | HOURS OF
TEL. SERVICE | FAX NO. |
| Harbour | 23300 | ||
| Police | 23222 | ||
| Post office | 23297 | ||
| ___________________ | _______ | ______________ | _______
|
| MONASTERY NAME
(in order of precedence) | TEL. NO. | HOURS OF
TEL. SERVICE | FAX NO |
| Great Lavra | 22586 | 23766 | |
| Vatopedi | 41488 | 10:00 - 16:00 | 23781 |
Iviron
| 23248
| 23643 12:00 - 14:00 23248
| | |
| Chilandari | 23797 | ||
| Dionysiou | 23687 | 23686 | |
| Koutloumousiou | 23226 | 12:00 - 14:30 | 23731 |
| Pantokratoros | 23253 | 12:00 - 14:00 | 23685 |
| Xeropotamou | 23251 | 13:00 - 15:00 | 23733 |
| Zographou | 23247 | ||
| Dochiariou | 23245 | 23245 | |
| Karakalou | 23225 | 12:00 - 14:00 | 23746 |
| Philotheou | 23256 | 23674 | |
| Simonopetra | 23254 | 13:00 - 15:00 | 23707 |
| St Paul's | 23250 | 23355 | |
| Stavronikita | 23255 | 13:00 - 15:00 | |
| Xenophontos | 23249 | 9:00 - 14:00 | 23660, 23631 |
Grigoriou
| 23218
| 23668 23671
| 11:00 - 13:00
| |
| Esphigmenou | 23796 | ||
| St. Panteleimonos | 23252 | 11:00 - 12:00 | |
| Konstamonitou | 23228 |
| |
| ___________________ | _______ | ______________ | _______
|
| SKETE NAME | TEL. NO. | HOURS OF
TEL. SERVICE | FAX NO. |
| Prodromos | 23294 | ||
| St Anne's | 23320 | ||
| Kafsokalyvia | 23319 | ||
| Skete of Vatopedi | 23303 | ||
| Skete of Iviron | 23296 | ||
| Skete of Koutloumousiou | 23259 | ||
| Skete of Pantokratoros | 23304 | ||
New Skete
| 23351
| 23629 8:00 - 13:30
| | |
| Lakkoskete | 23636 | ||
| Skete of Xenophontos | 23301 | ||
| St Basil's | 23317 | ||
| Provata | 23216 |
E. Amand de Mendieta, Mount Athos, the Garden of the Panaghia (Berlin/Amsterdam,1972)
R. Byron, The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men (London, 1931; repr. 1984).
R. Gothóni, Paradise Within Reach: Monasticism and Pilgrimage on Mt Athos (Helsinki, 1993).
___ , Tales and Truth: Pilgrimage on Mount Athos Past and Present (Helsinki, 1994).
F.W. Hasluck, Athos and its Monasteries (London, 1924).
S. Kadas, Mount Athos: An Illustrated Guide to the Monasteries and their History (Athens, 1984).
J.J. Norwich and R. Sitwell, Mount Athos (London, 1966).
S. Papadopoulos (ed.), Simonopetra, Mount Athos (Athens, 1991).
P. Sherrard, Athos, the Mountain of Silence (London, 1960).
___ , Athos: The Holy Mountain (London, 1982).
Graham Speake, Mount Athos Renewal in Paradise (New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 2003)
P. Theocharides et al., Greek Traditional Architecture: Mount Athos (Athens, 1992).
T. Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd edn. (London, 1993).
For further reading, see our list of Books of Athonite Interest: A List of Books Reviewed in the FoMA Annual Reports or Reported by Members of the Friends of Mount Athos
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