02 — The Compilers and the Kollyvades
Who made the Philokalia, and out of what movement. The book was compiled on Mount Athos by St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite and St. Makarios of Corinth and first printed at Venice in 1782; it was one fruit of the Kollyvades movement, an eighteenth-century Athonite revival that called for a return to the Fathers, to frequent communion, and to the ancient liturgical order.
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox (Athonite)
This section treats the human origins of the Philokalia. The first file introduces the two compilers and the 1782 Venice edition (deferring St. Nikodemos’s life to his own collection); the second sets the book within the Kollyvades revival that produced it and its companion publications.
Files in This Section
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| nikodemos-and-makarios.md | St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth; how the anthology was assembled from Athonite manuscripts and printed at Venice in 1782. |
| the-kollyvades-movement.md | The 18th-c. Athonite traditionalist revival — the dispute over memorial services, the call for frequent communion, and the return to the Fathers — of which the Philokalia was the greatest literary monument. |
See Also
- What the Philokalia Is — the book they compiled
- The Contents — what they gathered into it
- St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite — the compiler’s own collection
- Master README — the whole guide