The Metropolitan of Nyssa Neophytos was an abbot and supervised the metochia of Vatopaidi in Wallachia. He died there in 1739. [caption id="attachment_270" align="aligncenter" width="650"] The episcopal double and triple candleholders, miter and phelonion of the Metropolitan of Nyssa Neophytos.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_268" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Artoclasia tray. 1730....
Iakovos was elected Ecumenical Patriarch for the years 1679–1682, 1685–1686 and 1687–1688. In 1680 he was made Abbot of the Monastery of Myra in Moldavia and was enrolled into the Vatopaidi Brotherhood. At the same time, he was designated exarch of the Vatopaidi metochia in...
Gennadios II Scholarios, Patriarch of Constantinople (1454–1456) (1462) (1464) Having resigned from the Patriarchal Throne during his first period in office, Gennadios Scholarios retired to the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi on 12 May 1456 and remained until September of that same year. Afterwards he went to...
Saint Maximos the Greek was born in Arta, Greece in 1470, studied at the greater universities of his time, and afterwards became a monk at the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi around 1505/6, where he lived for a decade. In 1516, at the invitation of the...