On Thursday the 8th/21st of November 2013, the feast of the Gathering of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel was celebrated by the Patriarchate. The feast was firstly celebrated in the city of Joppe, where the Patriarchate maintains a Holy Monastery…
Jerusalem, Monday 18-11-2013 Honorable Mayor Nir Barkat, We are gathered here today to welcome your new term as Mayor, and it is our pleasure to extend to you, on behalf of the Jerusalem Christian community and on behalf of…
On Saturday the 3rd/16th of November 2013, the feast of the translation of the relics of St George the Trophy-Bearer and Great-Martyr was celebrated in the Holy Church dedicated to him in Lydda. The Holy Church of St George was…
On Saturday the 27th of October/9th of November 2013, His Beatitude Theophilos, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, performed the divine Liturgy in the city of Ib’lin (Abelin), in Northern Israel, where the Patriarchate preserves a Rum Orthodox Community, numbering…
On Tuesday, 23rd of October/5th of November 2013, the memory of the glorious apostle and hieromartyr James, the Brother of the Lord, was celebrated by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the ancient church dedicated to him. The church stands between…
Jerusalem, 30 October 2013. Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning. First, please allow us to thank our dear friend, Mrs. Sharon Rosen, for her kind invitation to address this conference. The subject of Holy Sites is, needless to say, of supreme…
On Monday, the 15th/28th October 2013, at 10:30 am, Doxology was held in the All-Holy Church of the Resurrection on the occasion of the national holiday commemorating the 28th of October 1940. Doxology was held as prayer of gratitude to…
Bethlehem, 20 October 2013. Your Excellencies, Honorable President of the General Assembly Mr. Sergei Popov, Honorable Secretary General Mr. Anastasios Nerantzis, Your Eminences, Distinguished members of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Behold now, what is so…
On Sunday the 7th/20th of October 2013, the Secretariat of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, following its visit to the Holy Sepulchre, the Patriarchate and the Cave of the Nativity, and having completed its assignments in the city of Bethlehem,…
On the afternoon of Saturday the 6th/19th of October 2013, the Secretariat of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy visited the Patriarchate. The delegation, consisting of approximately thirty-five members, was received by His Beatitude Theophilos in the presence of Fathers of…
