Hellige Sunniva Ortodokse kloster på Selja
Hellige Sunniva Ortodokse kloster på Selja er et nytt kloster i Norge, stiftet 1. juni 2014.
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Sacred Monastery of Saint Sunniva
A monastic community of Orthodox Christian monks in the Patriarchate of Georgia located in Selje, Norway.
SAINT SUNNIVA MONASTERY
The Holy Queen Sunniva was the first Christian to settle in Norway. Saint Sunniva fled from Ireland because a heathen king wanted to marry her. She set on three boats with men, women and children and put her hope in the Lord. They left Ireland without sail nor oars and God brought them to the island of Selja on the west coast of Norway in present day municipality of Selje. There they embraced the ascetic live living in a cave. Håkon Jarl, a local ruler, suspecting them to steel their sheep and wanted to capture them. Saint Sunniva and her followers prayed God to be delivered from the hands of the heathen chief: rocks fell down blocking the entrance of the cave.
Saint Sunniva and the others died in martyrdom in the cave. In the following years miracles were reported on the island. When the Christian king Olaf Tryggvason excavated the cave in 996 AD, the relics of Saint Sunniva was found incorrupted. The same year king Olaf Tryggvason declared Selja Island to be the first holy site in Norway. Saint Sunniva was canonized as the first Saint of Norway. Holy King Olav II was baptized in Rouen (France). He returned from his travels to take the throne of Norway in 1015 and set first his foot on Selja Island in order to pray in Saint Sunniva’s cave.
Later, a Benedictine monastery, Selje Abbey, dedicated to the first martyr of England St. Albanus (IVth C.) was built on the site, the ruins of which can still be seen today.
Seven September 1170 the relics of Saint Sunniva were translated to Bergen together with the bishopric seat. During the reformation her relics were lost or destroyed.
Saint Sunniva has become the patron saint of the Lutheran diocese of Bjørgvin and of Western Norway
SAINT SUNNIVA MONASTERY
In May 2010 the mayor of Selje, Gunn Helgesen, invited officially the
foundation of an Orthodox Monastery on Sancta Sunniva’s sanctuary. She
mentioned the more than 20 years relationship with spiritual children of
Elder Dionyssios. Also in May 2010 the Lutheran bishop
of Bjørgvin, Halvor Nordhaug, joined his wishes and prayers for the
foundation of a Monastery on Saint Sunniva island. In June 2014, the new
mayor of Selje, Ottar Nygård, renewed the invitation for the foundation
of an Orthodox Monastery in his letter addressed to his Holiness the
Patriarch of Ilia II of all Georgia.
The monks of the Sacred Monastery of Saint Sunniva devote their life to God through prayer, hospitality and labor at Selje, Eide on the West Coast of Norway.
A Stavropegial Monastery of the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate.
The brotherhood of the Sacred Monastery of Saint Sunniva was canonically established by His Beatitude the Most-Holy Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, Elias II. Our brotherhood is part of a spiritual family in Greece under the spiritual guidance of our Elder Archimandrite Dionyssios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Dormition, Petra in Thessaly, Greece. Elder Dionyssios spiritual son of Elder Aimilianos, former Abbot of Simonopetra Monastery on Mount Athos, who in turn is a spiritual son of Metropolitan Dionyssios of Trikkis & Stagon of Blessed Memory.
Currently the brotherhood is temporarily sheltered in Eide about 6 km south from Selje along the road to Måløy (Rv618) at the sea house of M. Stein Jørund Amdam.
The Monastery celebrates its feast day on the 8th of July, the day the incorrupt Relics of St. Sunniva were discovered on Selja Island. This date as been included in the canon law by the holy King Olav Haraldsson in 1024.
The monks of the Sacred Monastery of Saint Sunniva devote their life to God through prayer, hospitality and labor at Selje, Eide on the West Coast of Norway.
A Stavropegial Monastery of the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate.
The brotherhood of the Sacred Monastery of Saint Sunniva was canonically established by His Beatitude the Most-Holy Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, Elias II. Our brotherhood is part of a spiritual family in Greece under the spiritual guidance of our Elder Archimandrite Dionyssios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Dormition, Petra in Thessaly, Greece. Elder Dionyssios spiritual son of Elder Aimilianos, former Abbot of Simonopetra Monastery on Mount Athos, who in turn is a spiritual son of Metropolitan Dionyssios of Trikkis & Stagon of Blessed Memory.
Currently the brotherhood is temporarily sheltered in Eide about 6 km south from Selje along the road to Måløy (Rv618) at the sea house of M. Stein Jørund Amdam.
The Monastery celebrates its feast day on the 8th of July, the day the incorrupt Relics of St. Sunniva were discovered on Selja Island. This date as been included in the canon law by the holy King Olav Haraldsson in 1024.
The Holy Queen Sunniva was the first Christian to settle in Norway. Saint Sunniva fled from Ireland because a heathen king wanted to marry her. She set on three boats with men, women and children and put her hope in the Lord. They left Ireland without sail nor oars and God brought them to the island of Selja on the west coast of Norway in present day municipality of Selje. There they embraced the ascetic live living in a cave. Håkon Jarl, a local ruler, suspecting them to steel their sheep and wanted to capture them. Saint Sunniva and her followers prayed God to be delivered from the hands of the heathen chief: rocks fell down blocking the entrance of the cave.
Saint Sunniva and the others died in martyrdom in the cave. In the following years miracles were reported on the island. When the Christian king Olaf Tryggvason excavated the cave in 996 AD, the relics of Saint Sunniva was found incorrupted. The same year king Olaf Tryggvason declared Selja Island to be the first holy site in Norway. Saint Sunniva was canonized as the first Saint of Norway. Holy King Olav II was baptized in Rouen (France). He returned from his travels to take the throne of Norway in 1015 and set first his foot on Selja Island in order to pray in Saint Sunniva’s cave.
Later, a Benedictine monastery, Selje Abbey, dedicated to the first martyr of England St. Albanus (IVth C.) was built on the site, the ruins of which can still be seen today.
Seven September 1170 the relics of Saint Sunniva were translated to Bergen together with the bishopric seat. During the reformation her relics were lost or destroyed.
Saint Sunniva has become the patron saint of the Lutheran diocese of Bjørgvin and of Western Norway
E-post: sunniva@fhc.org
