The New Archival Documents that Confirm the Rectorship of St. Paisius Velichkovsky in the Cell of St. Constantine and in the Monastery of Simonos Petra on Mount Athos

The article focuses on the biographical sources of the hagiographic lists of St. Paisius Velichkovsky. Moreover, it provides for the first time some documentary evidence from the archives of Ukraine and Athos, confirming the facts of St. Paisius’ rectorship in the Cell of St. King Constantine in the Pantokratoros Monastery and of his dignity of a hegumen in the Simonopetra Monastery of Athos. This evidence opens a new page in the history of the Russian monasticism on Mount Athos and in the life of St. Paisius Velichkovsky, who attempted to restore the spiritual center of the Russian Svyatogorsky monastic life at the new location, in fact - to recreate a new Rossikon on Mount Athos after the fact that the old historic Russian Svyatogorsky St. Panteleimon Monastery (Old Rossikon) had passed into the hands of Greek monks by the middle of the 18th century .

Mount Athos, Holy Mountain, St. Paisius Velichkovsky, monastery, Simonopetra Monastery, Cell of St. Constantine, Rossikon, eldership, Orthodoxy

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