A Greek choir sang in Greek at his Coronation. He reportedly has a collection of Byzantine icons in his home at Highgrove, many of them from Mount Athos, the holiest site in the Orthodox Church.

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

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

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 ...

On October 11, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople decided to proceed with granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church MOUNT ATHOS /Greece/, October 29.

GREECE is the word – with Claudia Schiffer ... the sparkling sea and Mount Athos. The three-fingered peninsula that is Halkidiki comprises Kassandra, Sithonia and Mount Athos.

to people in general," Putin said after a welcoming speech by Protos Paulos of Mount Athos, and thanking the Ecumenical Patriarch and primates of the Greek Orthodox Church for what they do to ...

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MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters) - The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war - one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible mental ...