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Venerable

Symeon the Typikaris

of Dionysiou Monastery

A monk and typikaris of Dionysiou Monastery on Athos, reposed in 1897; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.

Reposed
189719th century
Place
Dionysiou, Mount Athos

Life

Symeon the Typikaris was a monk and typikaris of the Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos, who reposed in 1897 and is venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization. The typikaris is responsible for the order of the services. The Russian Orthodox Encyclopedia counts him among the known elders of Dionysiou in the second half of the nineteenth century. No other facts of his life are kept in the source we have.