Cyprus on Athos

Cyprus on Athos

Cypriot monks on Athos

The first historical communication between Cyprus and Athos is the visit of Athanasios Athonites and Antonius to the Monastery of Iereon, between the middle of 963 and the spring of 964.

Gregory of Sinai (1280-27 November 1346), is one of the founders of the Hesychastic movement on Athos. He was born near Clazomenes in Asia Minor, lived in his youth in Cyprus and became a monk there from a Cypriot monk. Later he went to Sinai, where he taught young people, then to the Holy Land and Crete, where he was introduced to the theory of Hesychasm, "nῆpsin" and "pure prayer", and from there to Athos where he spread the mystical Hesychast ideology and practice

The great Athonite Hesychast Saint Savvas the New (salos) lived in Cyprus for several years in the second decade of the 14th century.

Kyprianos the Cypriot, an important Cypriot scholar who taught together with Evgenios Voulgaris at the Athoniada School around 1800.

Cypriot musicians on Mount Athos

Cypriot musicians or Athonite scholars of similar specialties mentioned in the musical codes of Mount Athos: Chrysanthos the Cypriot hieromonk, disciple of Ioannou Protopsaltos
Chrysanthos the Cypriot Hierodeacon, poet of Irmon
Ioannikios Dochiaritis and Cypriot from the city Larnacos, owner of codex 356 of the monastery of Dochiario, Anthimos of Gabriel the psalmist, and of codex 376 of Dochiariou
Antonius Cyprios scribe of codex 934 of the Panteleimon monastery, a disciple of Gregory Lampadariou Protopsaltis, 1818
Kallinikos Hieromonk and chief herald of the Kykkos monastery, owner of codex 24 of the Grigoriou monastery, 1736
Cyprios Agapios in the middle of the 19th century (the Kollyvadas movement on Athos).
Several of the legal, musical, etc. manuscripts of the monasteries of Cyprus and in particular of Kykkos, either have an Agioritean origin, or follow Agioritean standards.

Cypriot abbots on Athos

The abbots of two of the most important monasteries of Mount Athos are Cypriots. Specifically, the abbot of the Vatopedi monastery Archimandrite Ephraim and the abbot of Dionysiou Monastery Archimandrite Petros.
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