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by haralampopoulosjc
Wed 17 June 2026 1:19 am
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: St. Herman’s Guardian – Archimandrite Gerasim Schmaltz
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St. Herman’s Guardian – Archimandrite Gerasim Schmaltz

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St. Herman's years of solitude on Spruce Island caused no little wonder among those unfamiliar with the mysteries of spiritual life. A man once asked, "Fr, Herman, do you live alone in the forest? Do you never become ...
by haralampopoulosjc
Tue 16 June 2026 3:05 am
Forum: Document Library
Topic: Abimelech the Monk of Crete, Biography of the Metropolitan of Pentapolis, the late Most Venerable Nektarios
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Abimelech the Monk of Crete, Biography of the Metropolitan of Pentapolis, the late Most Venerable Nektarios

The Athonite elder Abimilech of Little Saint Anne's Skete was the first person to advocate for the canonization of Saint Nektarios and published the first biography of him in 1921 a year after his repose, containing several accounts of the saint's miracles. In 1961 he was officially canonized by the ...
by haralampopoulosjc
Mon 15 June 2026 10:18 am
Forum: Anathemas: Past and Current Heresies
Topic: Elder Theodosius of Karoulia on the Calendar Reform and Standing Firm in the True Faith
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Elder Theodosius of Karoulia on the Calendar Reform and Standing Firm in the True Faith

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Hieroschemamonk Theodosios of Karoulia (†1937 ...
by haralampopoulosjc
Mon 15 June 2026 12:25 am
Forum: Document Library
Topic: Polemical/Apologetic Works Against Monophysitism
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Polemical/Apologetic Works Against Monophysitism

Two famous apologetic works which explain the Orthodox doctrine of two natures in Christ as opposed to Monophysitism:

by haralampopoulosjc
Sun 14 June 2026 11:21 pm
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: Resident Bishops on Mount Athos in the Twentieth Century
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Resident Bishops on Mount Athos in the Twentieth Century

Since at least the end of the nineteenth century it has become traditional for at least one bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to be permanently residing on Athos at all times in order to act as a representative of the Patriarch and to perform ordinations for Athonite monks to the diaconate and ...
by haralampopoulosjc
Sun 14 June 2026 11:04 pm
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: Monk Iakovos Karakallinos (1903 – December 30, 1996)
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Monk Iakovos Karakallinos (1903 – December 30, 1996)

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John Papageorgiou was born in Pteleos, Almyros, Volos, in 1903. He entered the holy monastery of Karakallos in 1929. He was tonsured a monk in 1932 by the virtuous abbot Kodratos (+1940). He loved ...
by haralampopoulosjc
Sun 14 June 2026 11:03 pm
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: Hieromonk Gerasimos of Agiovasileiatis (1896-February 15, 1967)
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Hieromonk Gerasimos of Agiovasileiatis (1896-February 15, 1967)

Nikolaos Karavelis, born Triantafyllos and Evangelia, was born in Verdikousa, Elassona, in 1896. He was ordained a monk along with two other brothers on 15.11.1920 at the Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Sourvia, Volos. In 1926 they moved to the monastery of Flamouri, which was founded by the ...