Esphigmenou Monastery

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Esphigmenou Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastic community on Mount Athos in Greece, known for its traditionalist stance and long-standing disputes with the Ecumenical Patriarchate.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Orthodox monastery
Mount Athos monastery
monastic community
country Greece
dedicatedTo Christ Pantocrator
Virgin Mary
surface form: Theotokos
follows Byzantine rite
Eastern Orthodox monastic typikon
governedBy abbot
governedUnder special constitutional status of Mount Athos
hasAccessRestrictions male-only entry
special permit required
hasBuildingType fortified monastery
hasCollection Byzantine art
surface form: Byzantine icons

manuscripts
relics
hasDenomination Greek Orthodox Church
surface form: Greek Orthodox
hasDispute Patriarchate of Constantinople
surface form: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Holy Community of Mount Athos
hasFeature central katholikon
defensive walls
library
monastic cells
refectory
hasMotto Orthodoxy or Death
hasPositionOn opposition to dialogue with Roman Catholic Church
rejection of modern ecumenical movement
hasStatus contested canonical status
heritageContext Byzantine monastic heritage
jurisdiction Patriarchate of Constantinople
surface form: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
knownFor Old Calendarist sympathies
disputes with the Ecumenical Patriarchate
opposition to ecumenism
refusal to commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch
traditionalist stance
languageOfLiturgy Greek
Koine Greek
locatedIn Aegean Sea
Central Macedonia
Chalkidiki Peninsula
Mount Athos
Orthodox Christian pilgrimage region
partOf Athonite commonwealth
surface form: Athonite monastic republic

Athonite commonwealth
surface form: Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain
religiousAffiliation Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
religiousOrder cenobitic community
subjectOf canonical debates within Eastern Orthodoxy
church–state legal disputes in Greece
usesCalendar Julian calendar

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mount Athos hasMonastery Esphigmenou Monastery