Μονή Παναγίας Εικοσιφοινίσσης
Monastery of the Theotokos Eikosiphoinissa
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A Brief History of the monastery
The founding of the Monastery dates back to the years of Bishop Philippi Sozzontos, who took part in the Fourth Ecumenical Synod of Chalcedon (451 AD). According to tradition, the bishop of Sozon founded, around 450 AD, a temple and a monastic settlement at Vigla, near the Monastery. This monastic settlement was abandoned over the years, and the Monastery was founded by Oslo Germano in the 8th century.
For centuries the history of the Monastery of Eicosifinisis is unknown. Archaeological evidence leads to the conclusion that the Katholikon of the Monastery was rebuilt in the 11th century. The monastery became Stavropigia with the silences of the Patriarchs Simeon of Trebizond and Maximus III , thus directly dependent on the Ecumenical Patriarch.
The monastery lived a new era of prosperity when in 1472 the resigned Ecumenical Patriarch Dionysios I , who with his action and his fortune gave her a breath of life , resigned . For this reason he was named the second monument of the monastery and the Church declared him Saint. Patriarchal silences for the Monastery were issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchs: Jeremiah I ( 1544 ), Mithrophanis III ( 1567 ) and Jeremiah II the Tranos ( 1573 ). In 1610 the Metropolitan Bishop of Myreon Matthaios visited the Monastery , who wrote the Panagia Acheroizitis Penal Code. In 1798, after his first Patriarchate, the later Ethnarchy and Saint Patriarch Gregorius E remained in exile in the Monastery .
The Bulgarians occupied Eastern Macedonia for the third time (after 1916 and 1918) during the Second World War. The occupying Bulgarian army invaded the monastery, held the abbot Gregory and the twelve monks to a limit, and then burned the monastery, destroying the buildings.
For centuries the history of the Monastery of Eicosifinisis is unknown. Archaeological evidence leads to the conclusion that the Katholikon of the Monastery was rebuilt in the 11th century. The monastery became Stavropigia with the silences of the Patriarchs Simeon of Trebizond and Maximus III , thus directly dependent on the Ecumenical Patriarch.
The monastery lived a new era of prosperity when in 1472 the resigned Ecumenical Patriarch Dionysios I , who with his action and his fortune gave her a breath of life , resigned . For this reason he was named the second monument of the monastery and the Church declared him Saint. Patriarchal silences for the Monastery were issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchs: Jeremiah I ( 1544 ), Mithrophanis III ( 1567 ) and Jeremiah II the Tranos ( 1573 ). In 1610 the Metropolitan Bishop of Myreon Matthaios visited the Monastery , who wrote the Panagia Acheroizitis Penal Code. In 1798, after his first Patriarchate, the later Ethnarchy and Saint Patriarch Gregorius E remained in exile in the Monastery .
The Bulgarians occupied Eastern Macedonia for the third time (after 1916 and 1918) during the Second World War. The occupying Bulgarian army invaded the monastery, held the abbot Gregory and the twelve monks to a limit, and then burned the monastery, destroying the buildings.