Stavropoleos Monastery

Stavropoleos Church Romanian: Biserica Stavropoleos over the past century when the monastery turned into dissolved, is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for nuns in principal Bucharest, Romania. Its church is constructed in Brâncovenesc fashion. The patrons of the church are St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel. The name Stavropoleos is the genitive case of Stavropolis . One of the monastery's consistent pursuits is Byzantine tune, expressed via its choir and the biggest series of Byzantine track books in Romania. The church changed into built in 1724, during the reign of Nicholas Mavrocordatos Prince of Wallachia, 1719-1730, by way of the archiman

drite Ioannikios Stratonikeas, a Greek monk from Pogoniani. Within the precinct of his hotel, Ioannikios constructed the church, and a monastery which changed into economically sustained with the earning from the lodge a fantastically commonplace situation in those instances. In 1726 abbot Ioannikios became elected metropolitan of Stavropolis and exarch of Caria. Since then the monastery he built is known as Stavropoleos, after the call of the antique seat. On February 7, 1742 Ioannikios, elderly 61, died and turned into buried in his church.