PATMOS

PATMOS. A small island of the Dodecanese in the Aegean Sea, not far from the coast of Turkey, where according to Rev 1:9–10, Joh n the seer received his revelation. Since 1088 it has also been home to a continuously inhabited monastery directly under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch (q.v.). The monastery began a school for the training of clergy in the 18th c. that functions today. Its continuous occupation has also left it with a singularly full and valuable collection of manuscripts from the later Byzantine era (q.v.).