Monastery of St Patapios (Loutraki, Greece)
The Monastery of St. Patapios (also Agios Patapios), is a monastery for women located near Loutraki, Greece. The monastery is in the jurisdiction of the Church of Greece.
The monastery, which is dedicated to St. Papatios, was founded in 1952 on the site where his relics in a cage were found in 1904. After its founding the monastery was led by Sister Patapia as Mother Superior, with Father Nectarios as its spiritual leader. The current Mother Superior is Mother Isidora.
The monastery church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and contains at its center a Panagia for veneration. The church also holds the relic skull of St. Ipomoni ( also St. Patience or Agia Hipomoni), who was the mother of the last emperor of Constantinople, Constantine Palaiologos.
