A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter ...

Ilja, Kirill's spiritual father, had been awarded the highest monastic title, that of ‘archimandrite with the skhima’, a super-cape with symbols that attest to the highest vows of ...

He also received his new name: Anthony in honor of St ... Greek Catholic group that had recently acquired a retreat in Western North Carolina. At the abbot’s invitation, the friars moved in and began ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

He has been working from a studio at the Holy Archangels Greek Orthodox Monastery near San Antonio. "My iconography is the work of the church; it's ecclesiastical work," Kavallaris, 60 ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery ...

worked and welcomed the faithful in a millennium-old monastery carved into a seaside cliff on the Greek island of Amorgos. Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian ...