Michalis Giannakos left Amorgos after high school 20 years ago, but remembers visiting the monastery as a child and seeing ...

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

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

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

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

A Texas Green Orthodox church is embarking on the final phase of a multimillion-dollar, yearslong expansion project amid ...

Ukrainian police and government officials have entered the catacombs of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, one of the most significant ...

Settled back at his whitewashed monastery perched between sky and sea, the monk was elated. Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, looks out from the chapel of the Monastery of ...

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 ...

Unlike Orthodox parish priests ... he has three photos on display — portraying his mother, his father and the monastery. “I want a photograph of Father Spyridon to place next to my father.