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P.O. Box 398 (1307 Sawyers Bar Road)
Etna, CA. 96027
(916)467-3228
TOC
Archimandrite Akakios, Abbot
Three days of hospitality, including meals, are provided in the monastery guest house for men only. No children under 16. No smoking, radios, or personal food are permitted on the grounds. Guests are expected to dress modestly, to avoid interaction or conversation with the monks (except the Abbot and guestmaster), and to attend Matins, Vespers, and the daily Liturgy. While visitors from all Orthodox jurisdictions are welcome, the monastery is strictly traditionalist and follows the Julian Calendar. The Mysteries are not generally available to visitors outside its jurisdiction.
The St. Gregory Palamas Monastery is a dependency of the Holy Monastery of Sts. Cyprian and Justina in Fili (Athens), Greece, and serves as the spiritual center for the American Exarchate of the Synod of Old Calendarist Greek Orthodox Bishops under Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili. The monastery follows an Athonite typikon. Services are conducted in Greek and English and chanted in Byzantine style. There are eleven monks and one novice in residence. Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna, Synodal Exarch in America, and his assistant Bishop Auxentios of Photiki, reside at the monastery.