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 ...