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<!--nb. portrait images at ~100px, landscape images at ~200px-->[[Image:Elderjosephhesychast.jpg|left|100px]]Elder ''The '''[[Joseph the HesychastEpiscopal Assembly of North and Central America]]''''' was a [[monk]] and [[elder]] on Mount Athos. Born , founded in Paros to George and Maria in 18982010, consists of all the future elder went to work in Pireaus in his teens. At twenty-three he began to read the lives active Orthodox bishops of the FathersNorth and Central America, which gave him the desire to enter into monasticismrepresenting multiple jurisdictions. He responded It is the successor to this desire by fasting SCOBA, and praying in the nearby countrysideit is not, which was uninhabitedproperly speaking, and then go to Mount Athos. The future Elder yearned to pray unceasingly, but had great troubles - he could not find a spiritual father, and the indifference of many monks towards unceasing prayersynod. In the midst The Episcopal Assembly of this experience, however, he was granted a vision North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the [[uncreated light]], and the gift of ceaseless prayer was given to him. He reposed world which operate in 1959, and he has wide acclaim for being the spiritual father or grandfather of Elders [[Ephrem of Philotheou]] , Joseph of Vatopedi, Haralambos of Dionysiou and others, who are directly credited for revitalising six of the twenty monasteries on [[Mount Athos]]so-called "diaspora."
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