The Monastery functioned under an idiorhythmic system until 1784 when, at the request of the fathers of the Monastery, the Ecumenical Patriarch decreed its return to the cenobitic system. This was a significant milestone not only for the historical course of the Monastery, but for all of Mt Athos, because it was the first instance of the restoration of the original cenobitic system of communal life in an Athonite monastery. As regards the most suitable person to lead the monastery, the proactive hieromonk Paisios Kausokalybitis was selected.
Under his leadership, the Monastery flourished. Paisios ‘energized’ the Monastery in many ways, renewing its spirituality and initiating its restoration. The Monastery managed to resolve its debt problem, and the successful example it set of the return to cenobitic life was followed some years later by other idiorhythmic monasteries.
