How the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra has changed after the expulsion of the Moscow Patriarchate, whether it can reclaim the shrine, ...

Article continues below This led to the dispersal of the monastic community and the eventual abandonment of the abbey buildings, which fell into a state of ruin over subsequent centuries.

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos ... and this virtue was connected to the image of Orthodoxy,” he said, his fluent Greek bearing a hint of a ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos ... and this virtue was connected to the image of Orthodoxy,” he said, his fluent Greek bearing a hint ...