Santa Maria di Grottaferrata

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Santa Maria di Grottaferrata
Basic data
Rite church Italo-Albanian Church
Country Italy
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Apostolic Administrator Marcello Semeraro
Dept vacant
founding September 26, 1937
surface 1 km²
Parishes 1 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 12 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 12 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 100%
Religious priest 9 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1
Friars 9 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 3 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Byzantine rite
Liturgical language Greek
Italian
cathedral Santa Maria di Grottaferrata
address Corso del Popolo 128
00046 Grottaferrata [Roma], Italia
Website www.abbaziagreca.it
Abbey church
Baptismal font in the church

Santa Maria in Grottaferrata (Latin Abbatia Territorialis Beatae Mariae Cryptaeferratae ) is an Italo-Greek territorial abbey of the Byzantine Rite within the Roman Catholic Church . The monastery is located in the Alban Hills , 20 kilometers south of Rome in the town of Grottaferrata near Frascati between the hills of Tusculum , Rocca di Papa and Castel Gandolfo .

history

The monastery was founded in 1004, before the oriental schism in the 11th century. The founder and first abbot was St. Nilus von Rossano , a Greek from Calabria, which was then still under Byzantine rule . Since Nilus died soon after it was founded, Bartholomäus , who also came from Rossano, continued building the monastery. At the site of the founding of the monastery there were ruins of a Roman villa and between them there was a low building, the opus quadratum , which had already been used as a burial place during the times of the Roman Republic and was converted into a chapel in the 5th century . Because of the iron bars on the windows, this was also called Crypta ferrata (later Grottaferrata , "crypt with iron fittings").

Nilus and his companions lived in the style of Eastern Church monks. The rule (Typikon) of Grottaferrata was laid down in 1299/1300 by Abbot Biagio II. The monks celebrated the liturgy according to the Byzantine rite according to the customs of the studio monastery in Constantinople and the Patirion near Rossano. After the church split, the monastery remained subordinate to the Pope and from the 14th century saw a Latinization in rite and monastic way of life. Under Pope Leo XIII. In 1881 a fundamental reform was carried out by mixing own traditions and modern Greek consuetudines , including the installation of a kind of iconostasis in the baroque interior of the monastery church. Since 1994, the monastery community has endeavored to renew the worship service in accordance with Italian-Byzantine traditions and with emphasis on its independence from the Italian-Albanian dioceses in southern Italy. According to its own understanding, this is the way the monastery has been giving “witness to the unity of the Church” for 1000 years. It is a meeting place between the Latin Western Church and the Greek Orthodox Eastern Church. "

In the vestibule of the monastery church there is a medieval baptismal font showing a man jumping into the water without clothes - a representation that resembles the famous diver from Paestum - and a fisherman. The early Christian symbolism of the human fisherman is taken up here. A person goes into the water to be baptized. He is fetched from the depths by another person as a fish .

organization

The Territorial Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata is united with the Byzantine Italo-Albanian Eparchies Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro in a conference association. In 2004 the three jurisdictions held their second joint synod in the basilica of Grottaferrata; the first took place in 1940 in the same place.

The territorial abbey is led by an archimandrite ; the monastery itself by a hegumen (equated with an abbot in the Roman Catholic Church). In 2013 Pope Francis appointed the Bishop of Albano , Marcello Semeraro, as Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata. Hegumen was Michel Van Parys OSB from 2013 to 2016 .

Archimandrite of the Territorial Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata

Hegumen (Abbot) of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata

literature

  • Bruno Martellotta u. a .: Grottaferrata. Archeology, art, history. (Travel and art guide Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno e Turismo “Del Tuscolo” ) (Ed.), Rome 1997.
  • Liturgia delle ore italo-bizantina. Rito di Grottaferrata . (Introduction and translation into Italian by Stefano Parenti). (= Monumenta, studia, instrumenta liturgica. Vol. 12) Città del Vaticano 2001. ISBN 88-209-7125-9 .
  • San Nilo: monastero italo-bizantino di Grottaferrata: 1004–2004: mille anni di storia, spiritualità e cultura . A cura dell'Archimandrita P. Emiliano Fabbricatore e della Comunità monastica, Rome 2005.

Web links

Commons : Santa Maria di Grottaferrata  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cronotassi degli Egumeni e degli Archimandriti , Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, accessed on January 8, 2019 (it.)
  2. ↑ Grottaferrata: l'Archimandrita dell'Abbazia, Padre Emiliano Fabbricatore, rinuncia all'incarico , Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, accessed on January 8, 2019 (it.)
  3. ^ Vatican Press Office p. 5/6 , Vatican Press Office of November 4, 2013 (it.)
  4. ↑ Il saluto di Padre Michel Van Parys alla comunità di Grottaferrata , Santa Maria di Grottaferrata Abbey of June 13, 2016, accessed on January 8, 2019 (it.)

Coordinates: 41 ° 47 ′ 9.2 "  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 0.5"  E