Mt. Athos, April 14, 2025
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Zographou, the Bulgarian-tradition monastery on Mt. Athos, has elected its new abbot.
The former abbot, Schema-Archimandrite Ambrose, who had lived and labored on the Holy Mountain since 1981 and served as abbot since 1997, reposed in the Lord on January 27.
On April 12, Lazarus Saturday, the Zographou brotherhood elected Heiromonk Gavriil (Karatotev) as its next abbot, reports the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
Fr. Gavriil was born on December 11, 1973, in Sofia. He joined Zographou Monastery on December 20, 1997, and received the monastic tonsure exactly one year later, on December 20, 1998.
He was ordained a hieromonk on October 24, 2003. Since the beginning of 2003, he has served almost continuously as the first epistemon (chief steward) of the holy monastery.
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