Xenophontos monastery

General info

Phone: (+30) 23770 23 249

Fax: (+30) 23770 23 631

Call center: (+30) 23770 23 632

Representative Office (Karyes): (+30) 23770 23 933

Dedication: Saint George

Date of foundation: 988

Hierarchical position: 16/20

Holy Oversight: Great Lavra, Docheiariou, Xenophontos, Esphigmenou

Cenobitic from: 1784 (sigillion of Patriarch Gabriel IV)

Monks: 35 monastic, 12 living in subordinate monastic establishments

Subordinate establishments: Skete of the Annunciation, 3 cells, 4 kathismas

Celebrations:

✔ 23/4 [6/5] Saint George (main temple celebration, great all-night vigil) [when coincides with Holy Week, the celebration is being moved to the second day of Easter]

✔ First Sunday of October: Theotokos Odigitria (Litany of the Patron Icon of the Monastery)

✔ 3/11 [16/11] Translation of the relics of Saint George (feast, vigil)

✔ 25/3 [7/4] Annunciation (feast of the skete's main temple, great all-night vigil)

✔ Bright Week Tuesday (Litany of the Patron Icon of the Monastery)

Relics: holy relics, holy icon of Theotokos Odigitria (She Who Guides), holy icon of Saint George, Saint George spring

Visit: old and new main temples