The Monastery of Iviron ( ka, ათონის ივერთა მონასტერი , tr; ) is an
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism ...
monastery in the
monastic community of Mount Athos
The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, as well as the combined rights ...
in northern
Greece
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.
History
The monastery was built under the supervision of two
Georgian monks,
John the Iberian and
John Tornike between AD 980–83 and housed Georgian clergy and priests. It was founded on the site of the former Monastery of Clement. John the Iberian was appointed as the abbot of the newly founded monastery in 980. In 1005,
Euthymius the Iberian became the secondary abbot of Iviron Monastery.
In
Greek
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Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
, Iviron literally means "of the
Iberians
The Iberians (, from , ''Iberes'') were an ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, at least from the 6th century BC. They are described in Greek and Roman sources (among others, by Hecataeus of Mil ...
". The monastery ranks third in the
Athonite hierarchy of 20 sovereign monasteries.
Notable people
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John Tornike (died 985)
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John the Iberian (died c. 1002)
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Gabriel the Iberian (c. 10th century)
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Euthymius of Athos (c. 955-1028)
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George the Hagiorite (1009-1065)
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Archimandrite Averchie (1806/1818–?),
Aromanian monk and schoolteacher
Gallery
File:Iviron Aug2006.jpg, View of the main monastery complex
File:Mount Athos- Monastery Iviron.jpg, View of the sea
References
External links
Official websiteIviron monastery at the Mount Athos website
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Christian monasteries established in the 10th century
Monasteries on Mount Athos
Georgia (country)–Greece relations
Greek Orthodox monasteries