The monastery of Dionysiou
This, the fifth monastery in the hierarchy, is dedicated to the Birth of Ioannis the Baptist. It was founded by Saint Dionysios
from Koresos near Kastoria in the period A.D. 1370-74. The great Alexios III Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond, made large sums of
money available to bring the building works to completion. The monastery was enlarged through grants by the Palaiologoi and,
after the fall of Constantinople, by various rulers of the Danubian principalities.
