The Friends of Mount Athos will be holding its next Summer Conference and AGM at St Anne`s College, Oxford on Saturday 7 June at 10.45 a.m. The theme of the event is Axion Estin: Hidden but Everywhere on Mount Athos. We’re especially pleased that two Fathers from Axion Estin will travel to the UK to […]
Axion Estin: Hidden but Everywhere on Mount Athos Date: Saturday 7 June 2025 Venue: Tsuzuki Theatre, St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS Time: 10.45 a.m. (registration) – 17.30 p.m. Entrance fee: £25 (students £15 each), lunch £25 each. We are delighted that the key focus of this year’s summer conference will be the […]
Thank you to our members from around the world whose kindness and generosity means we have been able to raise much needed emergency funds for our friends at the holy cell of Axion Estin. In early November we descibed the impact of recent earthquakes on the cell and particularly the threat to the original cell […]
The Executive Committee of the Friends of Mount Athos is delighted to announcethe launch of a Romanian Chapter under the leadership of Dan Stoica.The newly formed Chapter will engage with the small number of current FoMAmembers in Romania and of course seek to attract new members.The FoMA Romania Chapter will shortly be announcing a new […]
We are pleased to announce that Archpriest Stephen Platt has agreed to join FOMA’s Executive Committee. Fr Stephen is the Rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, in Ferry Road, Oxford. He is also General Secretary of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, a society which works for friendship […]
On Sunday, 5 November 2023, the Community of St. Nicholas in Cardiff celebrated its 150th anniversary, with the presence of Bishop Iakovos of Claudiopolis. Bishop Iakovos, who previously served as the Priest of this church for 22 years, presided over Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy. The Bishop then bestowed the Office of Confessor on […]
A Greek supermarket chain is to open a new branch in Karyes, the capital of Mount Athos. The supermarket, which will have an area of approximately 400 square meters, is to be located in what used to be the Cell of Saint Nicholas, which belongs to the Monastery of Great Lavra, and is located directly […]
FoMA recently awarded a grant of £3,000, spread over three years, towards an importantproject to catalogue and translate the entire Ottoman archive of Simonopetra Monastery. Theproject will also include the publication of an article on it, and the holding of two exhibitionsand a workshop. Dr Vanessa de Obaldia, below, is affiliated to the European Research […]
Book Launch of Elder Avvakum of Mount Athos Serhii Shumylo, presented his book at the FoMA 2023 summer conference. He spoke about aspects of the Ukrainian heritage on Athos and the role of Transcarpathians in the preservation of St Panteleimonos monastery in the second half of the twentieth century. The book launch had been planned […]
The new members of the Holy Epistasia, as appointed in June 2023, are: Fr Stephanos of Hilandar (Protepistates) Fr Pavlos of Xeropotamou Fr Nikodemos of St Paul’s Fr Paisios on Grigoriou
