Tag: Mount Athos
Emmy Award Winning Actor Jonathan Jackson Visits Monastic Republic of Mount Athos
Maria Sidiropoulou - OCP Delegate of Thessaloniki and all Greece OCP News Service - 1/5/16 Thessaloniki: The famous Emmy award winning Hollywood actor Jonathan Jackson ... Read More
Founder’s Patron Saint-day of Holy Serbian Imperial Laura Monastery Chilandar
Church of Serbia - 25/2/15 The founder's Patron Sаint-day of the Holy Imperial Laura Monastery Chilandar, the feast-day of Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-Gusher, was celebrated ... Read More
The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos: the traditions of Orthodox people of Greece, Russia, Serbia, and Georgia
St Thikon University - February 2015 As our followers know, in 2014 two new organizations opened at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University –St.Tikhon-Serbia and St.Tikhon-Greece, whose ... Read More
Mount Athos Now Has its Own Smartphone Application
Philip Chrysopoulos - Greek Reporter - 16/2/15 Mount Athos now has its own smartphone application. The user can download the free application that will remind ... Read More
Gabriel – an atheist Philosophy Student at Mount Athos
Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogea By Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogea - Translated by T.F.D. January 2015 Some years back, a young student approached me. He told me ... Read More
Visit of Patriarch John X of Antioch & All East to the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos
October – November 2014 OCP News Service Thessaloniki: His Beatitude John X – the Patriarch of Antioch and All East made an apostolic visit to ... Read More
Former Serbian journalist becomes a monk and hermit on Mt. Athos
The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos - October 2014 One of the “Terrifying” Karoulia hermitage caves on Holy Mount Athos is the site where the ... Read More
Serbian Patriarch visits Mount Athos
His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irenaeus arrived to Mt. Athos on 20 October 2014. Since Patriarch Paul as the primate of the Serbian Church did not ... Read More
Mount Athos “60 Minutes” Documentary
October 2014 “60 Minutes” is a popular, long-form news show on American television. In 2011, the show’s producers were given a very rare opportunity to ... Read More
Return of Byzantine Manuscript to Mount Athos
September 2014 After many decades, an important Byzantine manuscript was returned to Mount Athos in Greece. The manuscript that was stolen in 1960 by the ... Read More
Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos celebrates its patron saint’s day
August - 2014 With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, a Russian Orthodox pilgrim group led by Metropolitan Veniamin ... Read More
POLI NA SAFARI by Alexandra Chakos
Presbytera Alexandra arrives at her job site and home for the next 40 days Poli Na Safari - Mayan Orthodox Community - July 2014 “Poli ... Read More
High Level Coptic Orthodox delegation pays historic visit to the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos
Kisha D Dorad ( OCP Delegate of Serbia, Balkans and East European Region) OCP News Service - 28/5/14 Pan-Orthodox Unity Athens: With the blessings of ... Read More
Dačić visits Serbian monastery in Greece
Tanjug February - March 2014 MT. ATHOS -- Ivica Dačić visited the Hilandar monastery at Mt. Athos in Greece and said the spiritual edifice was ... Read More
Prime minister D. Medvedev and Patriarch Kirill chair a meeting of the Public Board of Guardians of St. Panteleimon’s monastery in Mount Athos
On January 24, 2014, the Public Board of Guardians of the Athonite Monastery of St. Panteleimon held a meeting. It was chaired Prime Minister Dmitry ... Read More
Hamish McRae: Getting away from it all is fine, but no man is an island
Hamish McRae - 23/12/13 To visit the monasteries on Mount Athos is to step back a thousand years, the closest one can get now to the ... Read More
Elder Paisios the Athonite to be canonized soon
December 2013 Paisios the Athonite and other elders from Holy Mount Athos will be canonized soon, reports the AgionOros.ru ("Holy Mountain") website with reference to ... Read More
Gifts of the Magi relic from Mount Athos to visit Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
Moscow, December 13, Interfax - The holy relic of the Gifts of the Magi, preserved in the Monastery of St. Paul on Mount Athos, will ... Read More
Hamish McRae: Getting away from it all is fine, but no man is an island
HAMISH MCRAE - 24/11/13 To visit the monasteries on Mount Athos is to step back a thousand years, the closest one can get now to the ... Read More
Postage Stamps of Mt. Athos Presented
Christina Flora - 9/10/13 Greek postage stamps issued from 1927 until today which depict images of Mount Athos were presented at a special event organized by ... Read More
Up on the holy mountains
THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY - Piers Akerman - 28/9/13 SOFT rain drifted across the small town of Karyes and mist hung over the slopes of Mount ... Read More