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These are complex questions, and Kevin McGrane does not give any reference.
So I would take it with a grain of salt, noting also that sometimes it is an elected office.
The next post shows you that McGrane's bravado was ill-placed, and his unsourced claims unreliable
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(C'mon TNC, did you really miss that???)
Kevin McGrane - "continuously from 1821 until his death in 1875."
Nicholas Fennel, Russian Monks on Mount Athos: The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's (2021)
"He (Gerasimos) was elected abbot upon his return to St Panteleimon Monastery in 1830"
Plus Gerasimos returned to Athos from Morea (Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece) in 1830.
So it looks like there were some significant errors by Kevin McGrane.
btw, McGrane used an earlier book by Nicholas Fennel:
Nicholas Fennell:
Parfeny Aggeev and Russian Pilgrimage to Mount Athos in The Monastic Magnet: Roads to and from Mount Athos (2008)
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A Review of : “The Forging of Codex Sinaiticus” By Dr W. R. Cooper
Against Detailed Background of the Discovery of the Codex
By Kevin McGrane 2018 Page 61, Footnote 146:
"In any case, a hierodeacon was not permitted to be a hegumen of a coenobitic monastery in Eastern Orthodoxy, such as the Panteleimon monastery on Athos: a hegumen was required to be an ordained priest." {Emphasis added}
These are complex questions, and Kevin McGrane does not give any reference.
So I would take it with a grain of salt, noting also that sometimes it is an elected office.
The next post shows you that McGrane's bravado was ill-placed, and his unsourced claims unreliable
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Why a 1831 confirmation letter if he was hegumen uninterrupted from 1822?Figure 10 Letter of 1833 of Ecumenical Patriarch Constantius confirming the election of Hieromonk Gerasim as Hegumen of the St Panteleimon ('Russian') monastery.
(C'mon TNC, did you really miss that???)
Kevin McGrane - "continuously from 1821 until his death in 1875."
Nicholas Fennel, Russian Monks on Mount Athos: The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's (2021)
"He (Gerasimos) was elected abbot upon his return to St Panteleimon Monastery in 1830"
Plus Gerasimos returned to Athos from Morea (Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece) in 1830.
So it looks like there were some significant errors by Kevin McGrane.
btw, McGrane used an earlier book by Nicholas Fennel:
Nicholas Fennell:
Parfeny Aggeev and Russian Pilgrimage to Mount Athos in The Monastic Magnet: Roads to and from Mount Athos (2008)
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So now that we have some of the Kevin McGrane errors corrected, this looks like it might be accurate. Understanding that more checking would be helpful.Farmakidis. Page 34
".... Benediktos Rossos and Prokopios Dendrinos, chased by the Turks, go to Mount Athos in 1820 and after the revolution there (1821-22), to Poros. Benedict becomes [Greek ηγούμενος] abbot [Or: "Hegumenos"] of the Monastery of Ag. Panteleimonos. Benedict resides in the Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi of Poros, from 1822 until the end of 1825 at least. Benediktos and Procopius were later appointed by Kapodistrias, as teachers at the Great School of Spetses (1828 – July 1830) and then (October 1830), at the Priestly School of Poros..."
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