Philotheus was descended from Mudanya of Bithynia, and his earlier mention as a Baptidean monk dates back to 1760 when he returned from the ceremony to the region of his particular homeland, Mudanya, as a clergyman. The journey to return to the same region was...
In the early decades of the seventeenth century, the least known nowadays scholar of Symeon / Synesios Hellanicus, retired and lived in the monastery. His place of origin is not known, as well as if he was a monk of Vatopedi. He was a writer...
When he was a scholar he was considered by his contemporaries to be a prolific translator of ecclesiastical books from Greek to Slavonic. The place of origin and the time he lodged in the monastery is not known. We also know he has been trained...
Ὁ Maximus with the name of Manasseh, when he was scouting the monastery of Vatopedi in 1486, when a patriarch Simeon I was consecrated by a metaphor of Serres. After about five years of priesthood in that great Macedonian metropolis, in 1491, he entered the...