Mount Athos
Mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece
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| 2022 | The Greek money-laundering authority launched an investigation into suspicious large fund transfers from Russia to Russia-friendly monasteries and monks at Mount Athos, following several senior Russian officials' visits in preceding months. |
| May 11 2021 | Mount Athos resumed visits after lifting the COVID-19 related suspension of pilgrimages. |
| March 19 2020 | Visits to Mount Athos were suspended as part of COVID-19 pandemic prevention measures. |
| October 2018 | The Moscow Patriarchate broke communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and banned its adherents from visiting sites controlled by Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, including the monastic community, in retaliation for granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. |
| 2011 | Population census recorded 67 Russian monks at the Agiou Panteleimonos monastery, highlighting the international composition of the monastic community on Mount Athos. |
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