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.
Statements (49)
| 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 → |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.