Grigorios Vatopaidinos

Grigorios Vatopaidinos

Grigorios Vatopaidinos, a prohegoumenos (the chief overseer) of Vatopaidi Monastery, was appointed Abbot of Golia Monastery in Bucharest and later consecrated as titular Metropolitan of Laodicea in 1669 at the Patriarchate in Constantinople. After his consecration he was appointed general supervisor of the Vatopaidi lands in Moldo-Wallachia until 1693. At his own expense, the Chapel of Our Lady Paramythia in the Vatopaidi katholikon church “was restored and painted” with wall-paintings in 1678. He donated valuable vestments, vessels and manuscripts to Vatopaidi.  Amongst some of these items preserved today at the Monastery are Grigorios’s stole, a gift of the daughter of the Moldavian ruler Vasile Lupu, and manuscripts written – and perhaps decorated – by his own hand in 1668 and 1669.

The stole of Grigorios of Laodicea, gift of the Lady Roxandra (1669) with its inscription, epimanikia cuffs and liturgical stole of the Metropolitan of Laodicea Girgorios.