novo-diveevo convent (it is often spelled as novo-diveyevo, novo-diveievo or novodiveevo, - ""new diveyevo"") is a female monastic community in nanuet, rockland county, new york in the united states, that was founded in 1949. it is under the auspices of the russian orthodox church outside russia. it is also called the stavropighial convent of the holy dormition. locally and officially it is simply called the russian orthodox convent.