# Philotheou Monastery

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Eastern Orthodox monastery, Mount Athos

Philotheou Φιλοθέου The monastery Location within Mount Athos Monastery information Full name Holy Monastery of Philotheou Established end of 10th century Dedicated to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Diocese Mount Athos People Founder Blessed Philotheus Prior Archimandrite Elder Nicodemus Important associated figures St Theodosius, Metropolitan of Trebizond; Abbot Dionysios (Blessed Dionysios of Olympus); Cosmas of Aetolia; Elder Ephraim of Philotheou (Arizona) (b. 1928) Site Location Mount Athos, Greece Coordinates 40°13′32.00″N 24°17′27.00″E / 40.2255556°N 24.2908333°E / 40.2255556; 24.2908333 Visible remains right hand of St John Chrysostom; piece of the True Cross Public access Men only Other information Icons: Our Lady Glykophilousa; Lady Gerontissa

**Philotheou** or **Filotheou Monastery** ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Μονή Φιλοθέου) is an [Eastern Orthodox](/source/Eastern_Orthodox_Church) [monastery](/source/Monastery) at the monastic state of [Mount Athos](/source/Mount_Athos) in [Greece](/source/Greece). It stands on the north-eastern side of the peninsula.

## History

Entrance

It was founded by the Blessed Philotheus, in the end of the 10th century. The monastery ranks twelfth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.

By the end of the 15th century, according to the Russian pilgrim Isaiah, the monastery was Albanian.[1]

In 1539–1540 the monastery was renovated with funds from the Georgian kings, [Levan of Kakheti](/source/Levan_of_Kakheti) and his son [Alexander II of Kakheti](/source/Alexander_II_of_Kakheti), [frescos](/source/Fresco) of whom are depicted in the [refectory](/source/Refectory).[2]

The library holds 250 manuscripts, and 2500 printed books (of which 500 are in Russian and Romanian).

The monastery contains 60 working monks.

The monastery Philotheou

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Bakalopulos1973_1-0)** A. E. Bakalopulos (1973). [*History of Macedonia, 1354–1833. \[By\] A.E. Vacalopoulos*](https://books.google.com/books?id=V5z_cQAACAAJ). p. 166. At the end of the 15th century, the Russian pilgrim Isaiah relates that the monks support themselves with various kinds of work including the cultivation of their vineyards....He also tells us that nearly half the monasteries are Slav or Albanian. As Serbian he instances Docheiariou, Grigoriou, Ayiou Pavlou, a monastery near Ayiou Pavlou and dedicated to St. John the Theologian (he no doubt means the monastery of Ayiou Dionysiou), and Chilandariou. Panteleïmon is Russian, Simonopetra is Bulgarian, and Karakallou and Philotheou are Albanian. Zographou, Kastamonitou (see fig. 58), Xeropotamou, Koutloumousiou, Xenophontos, Iveron and Protaton he mentions without any designation; while Lavra, Vatopedi (see fig. 59), Pantokratoros, and Stavronikita (which had been recently founded by the patriarch Jeremiah I) he names specifically as being Greek (see map 6).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Speros Vryonis, Jr., Henrik Birnbaum, Byzantine Studies: Essays on the Slavic World and the Eleventh Century, Aristide d Caratzas Pub, Jan 1, 1992, p. 93

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