Sacred Monastery of Saint Nina is a convent of the North American Diocese of the Georgian Orthodox Church located in , Maryland . The monastery, despite being in the jurisdiction of the Georgian Orthodox Church, follows the traditions of Greek Orthodoxy [1] .
| Monastery | |
| Monastery of St. Nina | |
|---|---|
| Sacred monastery of saint nina | |
| A country |  USA |
| Location | , Maryland |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Diocese of North America |
| Type of | sociable |
| Established | 2010 |
| Abbot | Mother Superior Emiliana (Hanson) |
| Site | saintnina-monastery.org |
History
The sisterhood was founded in Greece under the spiritual guidance of Archimandrite Dionysius (Kalambokas) , rector of the Assumption Monastery in Peter , the spiritual son of Athos elder Emilian of Simonopetra [2] .
In 2010, a sisterhood named after the Entry into the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was accepted into the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church in America . After the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Orthodox Church in America resumed Eucharistic communion on May 24, 2011 (the first time since 1946), Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) of America and Canada entrusted the sisters to Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) . The sisters received canonical leave and became part of the East American Diocese , temporarily settled in a rental room in Silver Spring , Maryland , a suburb of Washington, DC [3] .
In 2011, a sisterhood found a plot of land suitable for the construction of an Orthodox monastery - a large remote estate located on 131 acres of land near the town of , Maryland , an hour's drive north of Washington, DC , and 45 minutes drive west of Baltimore . Previously, the estate was in use by the Protestant community - there is a chapel with a bell tower, an administrative center, a refectory, a cemetery, a large renovated barn, six houses, two hotels, which can accommodate 20 pilgrims. The estate also has two ponds, 70 acres of corn fields, a new water treatment plant - all this makes the future monastery suitable for the development of farming. The possibility of acquiring the complex for a million dollars or rent for 300,000 with the right to purchase is being considered [4] .
In 2011, all six nuns led by Mother Superior Emiliana (Hanson) were American of Greek, Russian and Syrian descent, most of whom converted to Orthodoxy from other religions.
As a result, the monastery acquired an area of 131 acres in , Maryland , with two ponds, a church, refectory, large barn, and 5 residential buildings (the oldest of them was built in 1821), all in excellent condition.
On July 30, 2012, the ROCOR’s first hierarch, Metropolitan Hilarion, granted the monastery canonical leave to go under the omophorion of Metropolitan of Thessaliot and Fanariofersalsky Cyril (Christakis) [5] , while noting that “a number of provisions of the monastery’s charter regarding spiritual subordination contradict the norms and practice of our Church. Without foreseeing a possible resolution of this issue, we liberated the monastery from our homophore, so that its natives submitted to their former canonical church jurisdiction, namely in the diocese of the Church of Greece ” [6] .
In September 2012, Catholicos-Patriarch Elijah II the monastery was accepted into the jurisdiction of the Georgian Orthodox Church, being this time named after the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina [2] .
Notes
- ↑ “Washington needs a Russian monastery” / Orthodoxy.Ru
- ↑ 1 2 Sacred Monastery of Saint Nina - Home
- ↑ Convent of the Entrance into the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment December 23, 2011. Archived July 26, 2014.
- ↑ “In order to understand and accept the will of God, we must pray earnestly and earnestly.” - Vvedensky Convent in Washington (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment December 23, 2011. Archived March 26, 2013.
- ↑ text of the decree of July 17/30, 2012 (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment June 18, 2014. Archived October 23, 2012.
- ↑ Statement by His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion regarding the Mother of God-Vvedensky Convent (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment June 18, 2014. Archived April 12, 2013.
Links
- saintnina-monastery.org - official site of the monastery (English)
- History of the Vvedensky Monastery