Dionysiou, as seen from the sea level

Dionysiou monastery (Greek: Μονή Διονυσίου) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece in southwest part of Athos peninsula. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. Mount Athos (Όρος Άθως is a mountain on the Peninsula of the same name in Macedonia, of northern Greece, called in Greek Άγιον Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία The monastery ranks fifth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries. It is one of the twenty self-governing monasteries in Athos, and it was dedicated to John the Baptist. Saint John the Baptist ( heb. Jochanan ben Sacharja, arab. يحيى Yaḥyā or يوحنا Yūḥanna, aram.

The monastery was founded in the 14th century by saint Denys de Korisos, and it was named after him.

The library of the monastery housed 804 manuscripts, and more than 4 000 printed books. The oldest manuscripts came from the 11th century.

Today the monastery has a community of around 50 monks.

Dionysiou monastery

Gallery

Dionysiou monastery, codex 90, a 13th century manuscript containing selections from Herodotus, Plutarch and (shown here) Diogenes Laertius

Dionysiou monastery

External links

• Dionysiou monastery at the Mount Athos website. Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος c Diogenes Laërtius ( Greek:, Diogénes Laértios) the biographer of the Greek Philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname
• Greek Ministry of Culture: Holy Monastery of Dionysiou.