From this point of view, monasticism is the same everywhere, and each monastery, skete or hermitage is a privileged place, a center of reference for the monastic life and for Christian way of life. To ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mount Athos in Greece to mark the 1,000-year presence of Russian Orthodox monks there. The Mount - actually a 335 sq km (130 sq mile) peninsula - may ...

Georgian monks began to settle on Mt. Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Iveron, was founded there not long after. At that time foreign armies were constantly invading ...

TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos is not planning to close its mission in Moscow, Hierodeacon Filosof, the monastery’s deputy father superior ...

Saint Athanasius had Trebizond for his homeland. He first entered the monastic life on the mountain called Kymaeos or Kyminas, which is in Mysia of Bithynia, then he went to Mount Athos and founded a ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with ...

Their stories hardly end when they enter Mount Athos. A wayward hippie from Australia named Peter is now Father Ierotheos, an accomplished baritone chanter at the Iviron monastery. Father ...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America received Fr. Iannikios from the monastery of Simonopetra, located on Mount Athos, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America on December 10, 2024.

Mount Athos and its late medieval monasteries is a popular destination for pilgrims from across the Orthodox world. Women have always been banned from entering the 1,000-year-old community ...

Rescue teams from Thessaloniki, Kavala, and Halkidiki, equipped with a search dog and a drone, are searching for a monk who ...

Greece gifted France unique religious icon for reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Saturday, portraying Virgin Mary ...