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

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start ...

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

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

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 ...

A photographic survey revealed dozens of Bulgarian inscriptions in Greek Orthodox monasteries across Jerusalem’s Old City. “The inscriptions were found on the walls of Greek Orthodox ...

But a few Orthodox Christian monks remain icons ... to care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, where he said not even a rock fell during the ...

At its peak, two dozen Greek Orthodox monasteries were dotted across these rocky pinnacles and 300 monks inhabited Great Meteoron alone. Whereas monks and building materials were once winched up ...