Dionysiou Monastery

Dionysiou Monastery

Ιερά Μονή Διονυσίου
External view of the monastery.
Location within Mount Athos
Monastery information
Full name	Holy Monastery of Dionysiou
Order	Ecumenical Patriarchate
Established	mid 14th century
Dedicated to	John the Baptist
Diocese	Mount Athos
People
Founder(s)	Dionysios
Prior	Archimandrite Elder Petros
Important associated figures	Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Architecture
Style	Byzantine
Site
Location	Mount Athos, Greece
Coordinates
Public access	Men only

Dionysiou monastery as seen from a nearby cliff.

Dionysiou Monastery (Greek: Μονή Διονυσίου) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece in southwest part of Athos peninsula. The monastery ranks fifth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries. It is one of the twenty self-governing monasteries in Athos, and it was dedicated to John the Baptist.

History

The monastery was founded in the 14th century by saint Denys de Korisos, and it was named after him. The architect decided to build the monastery in Byzantinian style.

By the end of the 15h century according to the Russian pilgrim Isaiah, the monastery was Serb.

The library of the monastery housed 804 manuscripts, and more than 4,000 printed books. The oldest manuscripts came from the 11th century.

Today the monastery has a community of around 50 monks.

Dionysiou monastery

Manuscripts

• Codex Athous Dionysiou = Uncial 045 (Ω)
• Uncial 050

Gallery

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  Dionysiou monastery, codex 90, a 13th-century manuscript containing selections from Herodotus, Plutarch and (shown here) Diogenes Laertius

Dionysiou monastery

External links

• Dionysiou monastery at the Mount Athos website.
• Greek Ministry of Culture: Holy Monastery of Dionysiou.