Abbess Xenia (Pashkova)
Once a star of the stage, singer and director Tatiana Pashkova left a successful career, her beloved theater, and became not simply a nun, but the abbess of the Iveron Convent in the city of Orsk.
The funds are earmarked for specific projects, including for the restoration of churches, the expansion of a monastery store, the construction of a monastery boiler room and a protective wall, and more.
Another statement coming from Mt. Athos has offered clarifications on the recent visit of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America.
The Archbishop and his fellow pilgrims visited five monasteries, serving at some of them, but he was not afforded the customary reception of a hierarch by the Epistasia.
The Russian Church began forming communities in Turkey after the Patriarchate of Constantinople entered into communion with the Ukrainian schismatics in October 2018 and created the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” later that year.