stavropegial monastery

  • 1Vyazhishchskii Monastery — The Nikolo Vyazhishchskii Stavropegial Women s Monastery (ru: Николо Вяжищский Ставропигиальный Женский Монастырь) also known as the Vyazhishche or Vyazhishschkii Monastery is a convent located in the village of Vyazhishche, 7 miles (12 km)NNE of …

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  • 2Banjska monastery — (Serbian: Манастир Бањска, Albanian: Manastiri i Banjës ) is a Serb Orthodox monastery near Zvečan in the north of the disputed Serbian province of Kosovo. [See also: International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.] The… …

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  • 3List of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in the United States — The following is a list of Orthodox monasteries and sketes, both male and female, in America. Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America*St. Paul Skete, Grand Junction, Tennessee. Female skete. Superior: Mother Nektaria. Bulgarian …

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  • 4Malbis Memorial Church — Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of the Presentation of Theotokos Coordinates …

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  • 5Ecumenical Patriarchate in America — The Ecumenical Patriarchate in America comprises five separate jurisdictions, along with a number of stavropegial institutions, and includes roughly two thirds of all Orthodox Christians in America. The archbishop of the Greek Orthodox… …

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  • 6Stauropegic — Stauropegic, also rendered stavropegic, stauropegial, or stavropegial (from el. stauros , cross , and pegio , to affirm ) is a title or description applied to Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christian monasteries subordinated directly to a… …

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  • 7Basilian monk — Basilian monks are monks who follow the Rule of Saint Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea. The chief importance of the monastic rules and institutes of St. Basil lies in the fact that to this day his reconstruction of the monastic life is the… …

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  • 8Preveli — (Greek Πρέβελη) is a location on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete, in the Rethymno Prefecture, notable for its historic monastery.Preveli MonasteryThe Holy Stavropegiac [ [http://orthodoxwiki.org/Stavropegic Stavropegial OrthodoxWiki… …

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  • 9Abbot — The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery. The female… …

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  • 10Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople — This article is about the institution of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. For the office of the patriarch, see Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Founder Apostle Andrew …

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