Elder Ephraim is a spiritual child of the great Elder Joseph the Hesychast, and wrote about his spiritual father in the amazing book My Elder Joseph the Hesychast. Elder Ephraim became known as “of Philotheou” from 1973 when he was elected abbot of the monastery of Philotheou on Mt. Athos and in no time revived the ascetic monastic life there. After that the Sacred Community of the Holy Mountain blessed Elder Ephraim to expand and fill three other Athonite monasteries with those seeking the monastic life: Xeropotamou, Konstamonitou, and Karakallou. These monasteries remain under the spiritual guidance of Archimandrite Ephraim, as are a number of men’s and women’s monasteries in Greece and North America.
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