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Geronda Ephraim entered Mount Athos in 1947, where he was a disciple of the Athonite elder Saint Joseph the Hesychast. On July 13, 1948, he was tonsured and given the monastic name Ephraim. When his spiritual father Joseph the Hesychast died on August 15, 1959, he became the geronda (elder) of the hut of Annunciation of the Theotokos in New Skete.
Elder Ephraim had shown his religiosity from a young age, serving in his village church, attending Byzantine music classes and expressing his intention to become a priest. After completing his secondary education at the Gymnasium of Lefkoniko , he entered the Apostle Barnabas Seminary in Nicosia to attend classes with the ultimate goal of ...
St. Anthony the Great, to whom the monastery is dedicated.. In the summer of 1995, Elder Ephraim (a former abbot of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos with a history of restoring and repopulating previous monasteries) sent six monks of Athonite heritage to the Sonoran Desert of Arizona with aims to establish a new monastery in the name of Saint Anthony the Great, the father of monasticism.
Archimandrite Dositheos. Spiritual Father: Elder Ephraim of Arizona. Panagia Vlahernon Greek Orthodox Monastery, Williston, Florida. Archimandrite Polycarp. Spiritual Father: Elder Ephraim of Arizona. Holy Trinity Monastery Greek Orthodox Monastery, Smith Creek, Michigan. Hieromonk Joseph. Spiritual Father: Elder Ephraim of Arizona.
Archimandrite Elder Nicodemus Important associated figures St Theodosius, Metropolitan of Trebizond; Abbot Dionysios (Blessed Dionysios of Olympus); Cosmas of Aetolia ; Elder Ephraim of Philotheou (Arizona) (b. 1928)
Joseph the Hesychast (Greek: Άγιος Ιωσήφ ο Ησυχαστής; born Fragkiskos Kottis, Greek: Φραγκίσκος Κόττης; [1] 12 February 1897 – 15 August 1959 [2]) was a Greek Orthodox monk and elder who led a small group of monks at Mount Athos.
Ephraim formed a group of disciples after 1980, following Elder Joseph's instruction to have a group of disciples after the death of Nikephoros. His nickname on Mount Athos was "the Charismatic Submissive" ( Greek : ο χαρισματούχος υποτακτικός , romanized : O Charismatuchos Ypotaktikos ) because of the obedience he ...
1995 Elder Ephraim of Philotheou begins founding Athonite-style monasteries in North America; [78] [note 25] death of Eldress Macrina of Portaria; [80] Ecumenical Patr. Bartholomew I visits Patmos as part of the celebration of the 1,900th anniversary of the writing of the Book of Revelation by the Evangelist John. [81]