The first monastery built by Elder Ephraim in America was the women’s monastery of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Saxonburg, PA. Elder Ephraim founded it in 1989. Pilgrims meet here a ...

Elder Ephraim, 67, said he had spoken to the monarch after the King had reached out to him, adding that they enjoy a “very good rapport”. “Yes, he has been in contact since the diagnosis and I believe ...

Mixed online reactions have met the news that Elder Ephraim, abbot of Vatopedi monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, who was implicated in a scandal arranging land swaps between Vatopedi and the state, ...