Rector of Vatoped monastery Archimandrite Ephraim arrives in Ukraine

The famous rector of Vatoped monastery in the Holy Mount Athos arrived in Ukraine, writes on his page in Facebook Bishop of Baryshevka Victor (Kotsaba).

Bishop Victor published photographs of the meeting of the abbot at the airport. The rector of the monastery of Athos was greeted by Bishop of Baryshevka Victor (Kotsaba), Bishop of Fastov Damian (Davydov), Bishop of Borodyanka Varsonofiy (Stolyar).

Archimandrite Ephraim (Vasilios Kutsu) was born in 1956 in Famagusta village in Cyprus to a large family, graduated from the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens. He became a pupil of Joseph Vatopedi and moved to Athos to the monastery of Kutlumush. In 1981 he moved to the New Skeet. In 1982 he took monastic vows in the New Skete on Athos and in 1984 was ordained a hierodeacon and a hieromonk.

Since 1987, the brotherhood of the elder Joseph took over the work on the resumption of monastic life in the monastery of Vatoped. In 1990, hieromonk Ephraim became hegumen of the Vatopedi monastery. Recall that on March 21 the Supreme Court of Greece declared innocent all the indictments of Archimandrite Ephraim – hegumen of the Vatopedi monastery in the Holy Mount Athos, and 12 other defendants in the case on the exchange of land between the Greek government and the Vatopedi monastery. The hegumen of the Athonite monastery was accused of illegal transactions between the monastery and the state.