AGIORITICO, TOMO. — One of the most well-known official documents of Palamism (v.), composed on Mount Athos in 1339–40. Gregory Palamas sought to safeguard the doctrinal novelties of his Triads against any accusation by having them summarized in an authoritative form as the work of the entire Athos, while himself remaining in the background. And he succeeded. Although inspired by Palamas, the drafting of the document was carried out, according to the testimony of the author himself (Encomium of Palamas: PG 151, 593), by the disciple Philotheus Kokkinos, who later became Patriarch of Constantinople. The signatures of no fewer than 21 persons were affixed to II. The official approval of the Byzantine Church was granted to the document at the famous Synod of 1351 (PG 151, 757–58). From that time onward, the *Tomos Agioriticus* became one of the milestones in the history of Palamism.
There is no specific study on the subject; some reasons for this are given in the first book by M. Jugie, *Palamas Grégoire*, in DTHC, XI, cols. 1738–39 and *Palamite (Controverses)*, ibid., cols. 1783; id., *Theol. Dogm. Christ. Orient.*, II, Paris 1933, pp. 63–64; E. Candal, *Innovaciones palamitanas en la doctrina de la gracia* (Studi e Testi, CXXIII), Vatican City 1946, pp. 74, 77–78.