The sisterhood 

The Sisterhood has its roots in Greece where its Founder and Elder, Archimandrite Dionysios, is Abbot of the Sacred Monastery of the Dormition, “Petra”, in the Agrapha Mountains of Thessaly.  Our Abbess Aemiliane, was the first of the original Sisters of the Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Thebes, Greece, under its founding Abbess, Eldress Diodora. This original monastic community has grown into five Monasteries, in the US, Greece, and Norway, with nuns from more than 15 different countries.

around the monastery

The Sisterhood prays the full cycle of daily services and celebrates the Feasts of the Liturgical year. Our prayers and liturgies are combined with hospitality to visitors, caring for the gardens, chickens, and bees, making prayer ropes, natural skin balms and oils, mounting icons in the wood working shop, sewing monastic and ecclesiastical garb, baking Prosphora for the Liturgy, and roasting coffee, to name a few of our obediences.
THE SISTERHOOD OF ST. NINA’S MAIN PURPOSE IS PRAYING THE DAILY CYCLE OF SERVICES.
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The Enthronement of our Abbess Aemiliane by Metropolitian Dimitrios of Batumi and Eparchy of Lazeti, ​then Administrator of the Georgian Parishes of North America & Canada, on 27 January 2013, the Feast Day of St. Nina