Skete of Saint Panteleimon

Location within Mount Athos
Monastery information
Order	Greek Orthodox
Site
Location	Mount Athos Greece
Coordinates	40°15′11″N 24°15′32″E / 40.2531°N 24.2589°E / 40.2531; 24.2589
Public access	Men only

The Skete of Saint Panteleimon or Skete of Agiou Panteleimonos, not to be confused with the monastery of the same name, some kilometres away, is a skete of the Koutloumousiou monastery in Mount Athos, Greece. The skete is one of only a handful of Idiorrhythmic monasteries in the world.

The Skete was founded in 1785 by the monk Charalampos near the town of Karies, and is a dependent of the Koutloumousiou monastery. Today the skete consists of 19 cells with 20 monks, a library with 40 manuscripts of more than 500 books, as well as a church housing 200 icons and saintly relics. ^[1]

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