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'''Silouan the Athonite''' (Russian: Силуан Афонский) also sometimes referred to as '''Silouan of Athos''', '''Saint Silvanus the Athonite''' or '''Staretz Silouan''' (January 17, 1866 – September 24, 1938) was an [[Eastern Orthodox]] monk of [[Russians|Russian]] origin, born '''Simeon Ivanovich Antonov''' who was a poet and monk of the [[St. Panteleimon Monastery]].<ref>John Anthony McGuckin The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity 2011 St. Silouan of Athos (1866-1938) JULIA KONSTANTINOVSKY St. Silouan of Athos, also known as Silvanus, was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov of Russian peasant origin, and became a schema-monk of the St. Panteleimon monastery on [[Mount Athos]]</ref> The life and teachings of Saint Silouan were brought to light by his disciple, [[Sophrony (Sakharov)|Archimandrite Sophrony]] (aka Saint Sophrony the Athonite, Saint Sophrony of Essex) in his classic book '''[https://essexmonastery.com/bookshop/saint-silouan-the-athonite Saint Silouan the Athonite]'''.

He was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov, of [[Russian Orthodox]] parents who came from the village of SovskShovskoye in [[Imperial Russia]]'s [[Tambov Governorate]]. At the age of twenty-seven, after a period of military service in the [[Imperial Russian Army]], he left his native Russia and came to the monastic state of [[Mount Athos]] (an autonomous peninsula in [[Greece]]) where he became a monk at the [[Monastery of St Panteleimon]], known as "Rossikon", an Orthodox [[monastery]] that houses Russian monks yet is, as all the Athonite monasteries, under the jurisdiction of the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|Patriarch of Constantinople]]. There, was given the name ''Silouan'' (the Russian version of the Biblical name [[Silas|Silvanus]]).

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