THE CEREMONY OF THE APOKATHELOSIS AT THE PATRIARCHATE

In the afternoon of Holy Friday, the 5^th/18^th of April 2014, Vespers for the Removal of Christ from the Cross was officiated at the katholikon of the Church of the Resurrection, led by His Beatitude Theophilos, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem. The Head Cantor of the Church, Archimandrite Aristovoulos, chanted with his aides this troparion of compunction: “He who clothes Himself with light as with a garment”, in the presence of a crowd of pious pilgrims.

From the Secretariat-General