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Xenophontos Monastery (Athos)

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[[Image:Xenophontos Monastery.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Xenophontos Monastery]]{{monasteryAthonitemonastery|name=Holy Monastery of Xenophontos Monastery|jurisdictionrank=[[Ecumenical Patriarchate]]Sixteenth|type=Male monasteryCenobitic Monastery|founded=c. 1070998|superior=[[Archimandrite|Archim.]] Elder Alexios<!-- http://www.athos.gr/index.php?option=com_staticxt&Itemid=135&xt_item=1&staticfile=mones/16_ksenofontos/index.php --->|
size=30-35 monks|
hqlocation=[[Mount Athos]]Southwest (near St. Panteleimon's)|
language=Greek|
music=[[Byzantine chant]]|
calendar=[[Julian Calendar|Julian]]|
feasts=[[April 23]]|
website=—}}The '''Xenophontos Monastery''' (Greek Ξενοφώντος) is one of the twenty [[monastery|monasteries]] located on the peninsula of [[Mount Athos]] in northeastern Greece. The monastery is on southwestern side of the peninsula near [[St. Panteleimon's Monastery (Athos)|St. Panteleimon's Monastery]]. Xenophontos ranks sixteenth in the hierarchical order on Mount Athos. The monastery is dedicated to St. George the Trophybearer, celebrating the monastery [[feast day]] on [[April 23]].
First mention of the founding of a monastery was in 998, while the [[monk]] Xenophon is credited with building the monastery that bears his name in 1010. After the [[fall of Constantinople]], Xenophontos began a period of hard times as the monastery was alternatively destroyed by pirates and rebuilt. Each time rulers from eastern Europe would fund rebuilding efforts. Such attacks continued until the eighteenth century.
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