We know that the Monastery was founded around the year 1000, and from the start was dedicated to the apostles Peter and Paul. However, despite the undeniable fact that it has existed for more than a thousand years as a beehive of spiritual life, exercise, active study, writing and creativity, with radiation and influence, details of its path through time are fewer than we would expect and wish, and several aspects of its history are obscured. The main reason for these gaps is the loss, at unknown times, of most of the Monastery's archives, with only a small amount of documents preserved. To the historian who has a love of narratives, the one-thousand-year-old Karakallos Monastery stands and will forever stand as humble and taciturn.
