Constantinople, March 7TH, 2014 Your All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Venerable Patriarchs and Archbishops, Primates of the Holy Orthodox Churches, Your Eminence Metropolitan Eireneos of Myriophyton and Peristasis, Beloved brothers in Christ, Ladies and Gentlemen, The gift of the…
Keeping our readers up to date with the Patriarchate’s participation in the Gathering of the Heads of Churches in Constantinople, we would like to inform you that His Beatitude Theophilos, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, accompanied by His retinue,…
On the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, the first day of the Triodion Period, namely the 27th of January/9th of February 2014, a Divine Liturgy was held in the Greek Orthodox (Rum Orthodox) Community of the Patriarchate in…
On Friday the 11th/24th of January 2014, the feast of Hosios Theodosios the Cenobiarch was observed at the Monastery he had founded in the desert of Judea, to the south of the city of Bethlehem and the Village of the…
Jerusalem, 23 January 2014 Mr Mayor, Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences, Fellow Leaders of the Jewish and Muslim Communities, Respected Members of the Civic Authorities and the Diplomatic Community, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Christian Churches and Communities of…
On Tuesday the 8th/21st of January 2014, the feast of the Holy Monastery of Hozeva was celebrated. The Monastery is one of the most ancient in Palestine; it lies on the slope of the torrent of Horrath which, passing through…
Jerusalem Patriarchate, 20 January 2014 Mr. President, Respected Members of your Delegation, Your Eminences, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour for us to welcome you to the Holy Land and to our Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which…
On the 7th/20th of January 2014, the day after the feast of Theophany, the President of Romania, His Excellency Mr Traian Basescu, on a visit to the state of Israel, visited the Patriarchate accompanied by members of the Romanian Government…
Jerusalem, 20 January 2014 Your Beatitude, Your Eminences, Your Graces, Members of the Brotherhood of Saint James, Dear Brothers, We greet you with congratulations on the celebration of the Feast of the Nativity, according to the Armenian calendar, and we…
Jericho, the 5th/18th of January 2014. Your Excellency, the Governor of Jericho, Your Eminences, Your Excellency, the Consul-General of Greece, The Holy Land and especially the Land of the very ancient city of Jericho, with its sacred river Jordan, is…
