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

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

Via Elizabeth Scalia, here’s a story, with astonishing photos, of Orthodox monks (including no doubt priest-monks) in Kiev, keeping vigil between riot police and protesters, trying to prevent ...

For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ.

Believers say this grim vision of Elder Paisios, an ascetic monk who died in 1994, was actually a prescient glimpse of the upheaval now gripping this debt-racked country—helping fuel a surge of ...

but to a local Greek Orthodox community, a newly installed mosaic means much more. Father Athanasios, born Demetrios Clark, is an Abbot Monk of the Sacred Monastery of St. Iakovos in Oklahoma.