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Great-Schema Nun Diodora, Eldress
21.08.1964
Born Charlotte Stapenhorst in Goettingen, Germany, the third child of six of Kurd Stapenhorst, son of a Cabinet Minister, Professor of Heart Surgery in the University of Homburg, and Luise Stapenhorst, Physical Therapist, daughter of a General.
15.06.1981
Graduated from the Gymnasium of Homburg, Germany, with excellent grades.
20.06.1983
Received the International Diploma from the Lyceum "World College of the Atlantic", Swansea, Wales, with the Scholarship Studienstiftung des Dt. Volkes.
1984-1987
Studied History, History of Art, and Italian at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
1986-1987
Studied Italian in Perugia, Italy, on scholarship from the University of Regensburg, Germany.
1986-1992
Bachelor’s degree in Sculpting at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
26.09.1987
Through the Sacrament of Confession entered into a spiritual bond with her Elder, the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dionysios, Simonopetrite, at the Sacred Monastery of St. John Chrysostom, Naxos, Greece, wherein he was called as Confessor by the Metropolitan of Paronaxias Epiphanios.
17.12.1987
Became an Orthodox Catechumen at the Sacred Monastery of St. George, Vrana, Attica, at the hand of her Elder, receiving the name Dionysia.
1987-1988
Received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Dt. Volkes for the study of Chinese at Trier University, Germany.
05.04.1988
Baptised an Orthodox Christian in the Jordan River in the Holy Land.
1988-1989
Received a scholarship for the study of Calligraphy and Paper Construction at the Academy of Fine Arts of Peking, China.
1989-1990
Diploma from the Apostolic Ministry of the Church of Greece as a Catechist.
1989-1991
Catechist of the Sacred Archdiocese at St. Gerasimos Church of Ano Ilissia.
1990-1992
Studied Byzantine Music at the Athens Conservatory, on Scholarship from the Archdiocese of the Church of Greece.
1990-1992
Studied Iconography at the Academy of Fine Arts of the Athens Polytechnic.
26.06.1992
Tonsured Nun by His Beatitude Diodoros, Patriarch of Jerusalem and her Elder, Archimandrite Dionysios, at the Exarchy of the All-Holy Sepulchre in Greece, receiving the name Diodora.
1992-1993
Diplomas A, B, and C in Hebrew at the Ulpan, Jerusalem University.
1992-1993
Studies in Biblical Archaeology at the École Biblique et Archéologique, Jerusalem, Israel.
16.03.1993
Member of the Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Jerusalem.
13.06.1993
Diploma in Pastoral Theology from the Theological School of the University of Athens, on Scholarship from the Ministry of the Exterior, with the distinction "Summa cum Laude".
26.09.1993
Accepted for Post-graduate studies in the Theological School of the University of Athens.
1992-1994
Scribe of Codices and Minutes of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
1993-1994
Representative of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and Translator for the International Conferences on heresies at Pentelis Monastery, Attica, and at Mytilene, under the direction and care of the Protopresbyter Fr. Antonios Alevizopoulos of eternal memory.
05.05.1994
Interviewed for the book, Making Their Own Peace: Women of Jerusalem, by Mrs. Anne Madsen, Author and Professor at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A., (in press).
04.12.1994
Became a founding member of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at Thebes, Boeotias, of the Sacred Dioceses of Thebes & Levadeias, of which the Founder and Spiritual Father - Elder is the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dionysios, then Abbot of Holy Cross Monastery and Headmaster in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
08.07.1995
By canonical ballot of the Monastic Sisterhood, elected Abbess of the Sacred Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
13.09.1995
Tonsured a Great-Schema Nun in Exaltation of the Holy Cross Monastery, Thebes, Boeotias, by her Elder, the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dionysios, with the blessing of His Eminence Ieronymos, Metropolitan of Thebes & Levadeias.
14.09.1995
Enthroned according to the full ecclesiastical order by His Eminence Ieronymos, Metropolitan of Thebes & Levadeias, first Abbess of the Sacred Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Thebes, Boeotias, with a Sisterhood made up of forty Nuns and Novices from fifteen different countries.
08.09.1996
Petition of His Eminence Theocletos, Metropolitan of Ioannina, for the dispatch of a Sisterhood for the reconstitution of the historical Sacred Monastery of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, Ano Pedina, in Central Zagorion, Ioannina.
22.08.1998
Lectured at the International Conference of the pan-monastic Society KAÏRE, on the topic, "The Divine Liturgy", at the Conference Center of the Sacred Monastery of the Annunciation, Aliartos Boeotias, Greece.
05.04.1999
Petition of His Eminence Athenagoras, Metropolitan of Panama & Central America, for the dispatch of a Sisterhood for the establishment of a Sacred Monastery in Mexico.
27.09.1999
Lectured at the XVIII Inter-confessional Conference of Religious, on the topic, "Children of the Same Father", at the Sisterhood of Deaconesses, Bad Liebenzell, Germany.
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