Vasileios Dimopoulos was born in Agia Marina in Lokris in 1867. He was tonsure a monk at Vatopaidi Monastery in 1893. In 1894 he followed his elder and uncle, Archimandrite Iakovos Dimopoulos, whom he succeeded in 1913 as representative of the Ecumenical Throne at the...
[caption id="attachment_327" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photograph of hierodeacon Arkadios in the midst of civilians.[/caption] Arkadios was from Skopje of Proconnesus. Having settled at Vatopaidi Monastery in 1882, he was ordained a deacon in 1887, and in 1899 he became a council member. A prolific writer with a...
Neophytos was born in 1832 in Kioupkioi, today’s provincial seat of Serres. He received a complete education at various schools and for a short time he taught Greek at the Theological School of Chalki. Afterwards he went to Germany for higher studies. In 1867 he...
Dionysios was born around 1790 on Ainos. A very bright and energetic man, he served as overseer for Vatopaidi Monastery throughout all the years of the Greek Revolution (1821–1828). In 1821, in their effort to abate the fury and the rage of the Turks against...
Panagiotis Dimopoulos was born in 1853 in Agia Marina in Lokris. In 1871 he was tonsured a monk at Vatopaidi Monastery with the name Iakovos. From 1875 to 1879 he was a student at the Theological School of Chalki. After his return to the Monastery,...