Athanasios Athonitis
Athanasios Athonites Άθανάσιος ό Άθωνίτης (* between 925 and 930 in Trebizond ( Trabzon ); † July 5 around 1000) was a Byzantine monk who founded the Megisti Lavra monastery on Mount Athos .
His baptismal name was Abraham . After the death of his parents he studied in Constantinople . Under the influence of Michael Maleinos he became a monk in the monastery on Mount Kyminas in Bithynia . In 962/963 he founded the first large monastery on Mount Athos with the support of the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II. Phocas and thus broke with the hermit traditions. Around 965 the set of rules was recorded in writing ( Typikon , Diatyposis, Hypotyposis), in which the Regula Benedicti was taken into account in addition to Theodoros Studites . He did not live to see the completion of the extensive building work he had initiated; he died while checking a church building.
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- Vitae duae antiquae Sancti Athanasii Athonitae , ed. J. Noret. Turnhout 1982
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- The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium I, 1991, p. 219
- KS Frank: Athanasios Athonites . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 1161 f.
- Hans-Georg Beck : Church and theological literature in the Byzantine Empire. (Byzantine Manual II.1 [HdAW XII.2.1]), Munich 1959, pp. 588f. to the rules
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Athanasios Athonites. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 259.
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| SURNAME | Athanasios Athonitis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abraham, Athanasius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine monk who founded the Megisti Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 925 and 930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trebizond |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5th at 1000 |
| Place of death | Mount Athos |