The answer lies on Mount Athos, where Elder Ephraim is a monk. The King has visited Elder Ephraim’s monastery, Vatopedi, many times. Having visited Mount Athos myself, I can confirm that it is a ...

A rare Byzantine manuscript discovered in a Greek monastery has unveiled hidden historical gems, offering new insights into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros).

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...