The historic Athonite Academy at Mount Athos was instrumental in promoting Christianity and Greek identity during the Ottoman ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mount Athos in Greece to mark the 1,000-year presence of Russian Orthodox monks there. The Mount - actually a 335 sq km (130 sq mile) peninsula - may ...

There are several reasons for this. 1) The first reason is that Mount Athos is an autonomous republic—and for this like a country—inhabited only by monks and completely dedicated to monastic life.

and between 1259 and 1306 the pope’s private army devastated Mt. Athos several times. Monks of Zographou and Vatopedi monasteries and the Protaton were martyred for the Orthodox Faith, and the monks ...

Saint Athanasius had Trebizond for his homeland. He first entered the monastic life on the mountain called Kymaeos or Kyminas, which is in Mysia of Bithynia, then he went to Mount Athos and founded a ...

Mount Athos, Greece, where an Orthodox community of 20 monasteries is located, is one of the most revered places in Orthodox culture and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A special permit is ...

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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 ...

For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox ... foot on Mount Athos, and blessed its pagan inhabitants, who then converted). He forms an intense bond with his monastery's ...

Mount Athos and its late medieval monasteries is a popular destination for pilgrims from across the Orthodox world. Women have always been banned from entering the 1,000-year-old community ...