"Kyprian Stavrovouiotis"

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Hieromonachos Kyprianou Stavrosvouiotis (1878 – 1 February 1955), also known as "Papa-Cyprus Stavrosvouiotis" was a Greek Cypriot Orthodox monk who practiced in Cyprus and Mount Athos and was one of the modern loyal Elders.

First years

Kyriakos Hatzigeorgalis was born in the town of Dali in Anglo-occupied Cyprus in 1878, descended from a rural family and received considerable education for his time, after graduating from Schoolarchy (secondary education, equivalent to today's Gymnasium and High School) in Nicosia, which he completed in 1892 in just three years, after being promoted according to his excellent performance.

Then, he entered as a cadet at the Holy Monastery of Stavrosvounio in 1905 at the age of 27, placing himself in solitary obedience under the then Abbot, distinctive Elder Barnabas. After an appropriate test, he was a monk at the Monastery receiving the ascetic name Kyprianou and then at normal age received the Mystery of Priesthood and was ordained Hierodeacon and later Jerome.

He served for several years in various ministries, such as the Officer's, since he served as vicar in Metochion, St. Varvara, as a cleverer, as a saint, in the gardens of the Monastery etc. As for Agiography, he left rich collection of works belonging to the Renaissance style that was then followed in Stavrosvuni. As far as agriculture and livestock are concerned, he worked hard on the estates of the Monastery and was the main organizer and athletic worker of the agricultural occupations of the Commonwealth.

Exercise on Mount Athos

About 1924 because of the financial difficulties of the Monastery he departed with Monachos Cyril for Mount Athos, where he first stayed in the Holy Monastery Simon Petras for more than one year where he served at the conference. There he had the opportunity to study various Fatherly books and collect precious spiritual wealth. In this Monastery he left a memory of a virtuous Spiritual and industrious Monk, and there are confessions where various cases of eurrhythmia of this Monastery received a definitive outcome with the intervention of the distinctive Jerome Papa-Cyprus.

Subsequently, he went to the Desert of Mount Athos and specifically to the ascetic Katounakia, to the Kalybi of St Gerasimos and practiced near the Neptiko Gerontos Kallinikos the Hessist (1853-1930) for about six months. His apprenticeship near the virtuous ascetic Kallinikos was at all beneficial to the priest-Cyprus after being initiated in the work of spiritual prayer and the strict Athonite tradition.

Further Work

Returning to Cyprus in 1926 again in the Holy Monastery of Stavrovoni he served as the Spiritual of the Monastery as well as a multitude of people as the tireless worker and coordinator of the agricultural occupations of the Monastery. He worked on the estates of the Monastery until 1944, already living in the 66th year of his age. He was a strict ascetic, fiery fighter, worker