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 ...

They arrived on Mt Athos on July 4, on the eve of the feast day of ... Elder Paisius’s circle of influence was wide. In Russia, it spread throughout monasteries in 35 dioceses. Although St. Paisius ...

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, ...

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 ...

An Orthodox spiritual centre since 1054, Mount Athos has enjoyed an ... The layout of the monasteries (about 20 of which are presently inhabited by some 1,400 monks) had an influence as far afield as ...