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Venerable

Dorotheos

of Dionysiou Monastery

A monk of Dionysiou Monastery on Athos, reposed in 1898; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.

Reposed
189819th century
Place
Dionysiou, Mount Athos

Life

Dorotheos was a monk of the Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos, who reposed in 1898 and is venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization. The Russian Orthodox Encyclopedia counts him among the known elders of Dionysiou at the end of the nineteenth century. His life is not told in the source we have.