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 ...

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 ...

St Panteleimon’s was the only one of the peninsula’s 20 monasteries that was formally under Russian control. (There were a couple of other vast Russian houses on Athos, dedicated to Saint ...

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 ...

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, ...