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1) An ethnic Russian can be living in Symi, as in Brighton Beach, NY or Ukraine or 100 other spots.
2) And I will be happy to review the usages of Rossi attached to Benedict, I think there are quite a few
3) if he was never called Benedict the Russian, that simply eliminates your #1, and all the items are the same person.
Since Benedict had a full life and was often not at Panteleimon, the simple reading is ethnicity.
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As pointed out earlier:
The 1832 Gazette seems similar:
Ethnikē ephēmeris (National Gazette) (1832)
https://books.google.com/books?id=FlpEAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA3-PA91
"the establishment of an Ecclesiastical School on the island of Poros has been postponed until now. The Panosiologiots Mr. Benedictus the Russian, and Archimandrite Procopius ... knowing the ability and virtue of the men"
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Nicholas Fennel in correspondence
’Rossios’ might have been an approximate surname; it perhaps meant that he had connections with Russia or was thought to have come from Russia (via Symi?).
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Lilia in Genius
Tod von Benediktos [Michael Sipachios/Μιχαήλ Σιπαχιός, „o εκ του Ρωσσικού, ο Διδάσκαλος“, geb. 1768 auf Symi] Diakon [Ιεροδιάκονος] und Mönch des Klosters des Hl. Panteleimon auf dem Athos; er stammte aus Symi, studierte in Kydonies bei Grigorios Sarafis, lehrte und leitete selbst eine Zeitlang die Schule in Kydonies. Wahrend der Revolution verließ er den Athos, lehrte an der Lehranstalt von Spetses (1828), später in der von Kapodistrias auf Poros gegründeten hieratischen Schule, kehrte dann aber wieder auf den Athos zurück. Benediktos verfasste einige Hymnen, die bekannteste „«Ακολουθία στο Άξιον Εστίν" wurde 1845 in Athen gedruckt (Chaidemenopoulos 2012, 243, Anm. 116; dort auch weitere bis dato unbekannte Werke des Benediktos. Zu Benediktos und der Schule auf Symi siehe Evangelidis 1936, Bd. 2,113-115).
Death of Benediktos [Michael Sipachios/Μιχαήλ Σιπαχιός,, born 1768 in Symi] Deacon ο Διδάσκαλος] and monk of the monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos; he came from Symi, studied in Kydonies with Grigorios Sarafis, taught and led He left the school in Kydonies for a while during the revolution, taught at the school in Spetses (1828), later in the hieratic school founded by Kapodistrias on Poros, but then returned to Athos and wrote some hymns , the best-known «Ακολουθία στο Άξιον Εστίν" was printed in Athens in 1845 (Chaidemenopoulos 2012, 243, note 116; there are also other previously unknown works by Benedictos. For Benediktos and the school on Symi, see Evangelidis 1936, vol. 2, 113-115) .
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Russian Monks on Mount Athos: The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's (2021)
Nicholas Fennell
p. 25
The next abbot after Savvas was perhaps the first non-Greek in charge of St Panteleimon Monastery by the sea. Before his death Savvas had chosen two successors: Priest-Schema-Monk Gerasimos and Deacon-Monk Venedictos, a Greek.
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FYI: Nicholas Fennell uses Venedictos and Venediktos.
1) An ethnic Russian can be living in Symi, as in Brighton Beach, NY or Ukraine or 100 other spots.
2) And I will be happy to review the usages of Rossi attached to Benedict, I think there are quite a few
3) if he was never called Benedict the Russian, that simply eliminates your #1, and all the items are the same person.
Since Benedict had a full life and was often not at Panteleimon, the simple reading is ethnicity.
==================================================
As pointed out earlier:
The 1832 Gazette seems similar:
Ethnikē ephēmeris (National Gazette) (1832)
https://books.google.com/books?id=FlpEAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA3-PA91
"the establishment of an Ecclesiastical School on the island of Poros has been postponed until now. The Panosiologiots Mr. Benedictus the Russian, and Archimandrite Procopius ... knowing the ability and virtue of the men"
==================================================
Nicholas Fennel in correspondence
’Rossios’ might have been an approximate surname; it perhaps meant that he had connections with Russia or was thought to have come from Russia (via Symi?).
============================
Lilia in Genius
Tod von Benediktos [Michael Sipachios/Μιχαήλ Σιπαχιός, „o εκ του Ρωσσικού, ο Διδάσκαλος“, geb. 1768 auf Symi] Diakon [Ιεροδιάκονος] und Mönch des Klosters des Hl. Panteleimon auf dem Athos; er stammte aus Symi, studierte in Kydonies bei Grigorios Sarafis, lehrte und leitete selbst eine Zeitlang die Schule in Kydonies. Wahrend der Revolution verließ er den Athos, lehrte an der Lehranstalt von Spetses (1828), später in der von Kapodistrias auf Poros gegründeten hieratischen Schule, kehrte dann aber wieder auf den Athos zurück. Benediktos verfasste einige Hymnen, die bekannteste „«Ακολουθία στο Άξιον Εστίν" wurde 1845 in Athen gedruckt (Chaidemenopoulos 2012, 243, Anm. 116; dort auch weitere bis dato unbekannte Werke des Benediktos. Zu Benediktos und der Schule auf Symi siehe Evangelidis 1936, Bd. 2,113-115).
Death of Benediktos [Michael Sipachios/Μιχαήλ Σιπαχιός,, born 1768 in Symi] Deacon ο Διδάσκαλος] and monk of the monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos; he came from Symi, studied in Kydonies with Grigorios Sarafis, taught and led He left the school in Kydonies for a while during the revolution, taught at the school in Spetses (1828), later in the hieratic school founded by Kapodistrias on Poros, but then returned to Athos and wrote some hymns , the best-known «Ακολουθία στο Άξιον Εστίν" was printed in Athens in 1845 (Chaidemenopoulos 2012, 243, note 116; there are also other previously unknown works by Benedictos. For Benediktos and the school on Symi, see Evangelidis 1936, vol. 2, 113-115) .
View attachment 10832
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Previously placed
Russian Monks on Mount Athos: The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's (2021)
Nicholas Fennell
p. 25
The next abbot after Savvas was perhaps the first non-Greek in charge of St Panteleimon Monastery by the sea. Before his death Savvas had chosen two successors: Priest-Schema-Monk Gerasimos and Deacon-Monk Venedictos, a Greek.
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FYI: Nicholas Fennell uses Venedictos and Venediktos.