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 ...

The 130-square-mile peninsula houses 20 monasteries and about 2,000 ... the leader of the Esphigmenou monks on Mount Athos, has expressed favor for Russian ultranationalism and praised the idea ...

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk recalled that that believers valued Athos, first and foremost, for loyalty to Orthodox Christian canons MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. The recognition of the so ...

It was probably a strategic choice made by Metropolitan Nikodim, in agreement with the KGB, to have a secure point of reference in the historic Russian monastery of St Panteleimon on Mount Athos ...

Athos several times. Monks of Zographou and Vatopedi monasteries and the Protaton were martyred for ... Their presence at Fort Ross, Russian colony turned California State Park, is exceptional. It is ...

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 ...

One thing you want to be sure to add to your itinerary is visiting the ancient Greek monasteries. Here are the top 10 ...

Scattered throughout the landscape are 20 ancient monasteries ... Today, Mount Athos is home to over 2,000 monks from Greece, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and other Eastern Orthodox countries.

Athos for more than ten years in one of the ... the visit to Valaam of Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin), confessor of the Optina Monastery’s brethren and an Orthodox elder famous all over Russia, ...

Ilja, Kirill's spiritual father, had been awarded the highest monastic title, that of ‘archimandrite with the skhima’, a super-cape with symbols that attest to the highest vows of ...