On Friday the 9th/22nd of November 2013, the eighth anniversary of His Beatitude Theophilos, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, was celebrated by the Patriarchate. On the occasion of the anniversary, a Doxology service was held in the All-Holy Church…
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…
During the period between the 21st to the 25th of September/ 4th to 8th October 2013, the Patriarchate of Serbia celebrated the 1700th anniversary of the Edictum Mediolanense, issued by Constantine the Great (in 313 AD) who hailed from the…
On Tuesday the 4th/17th of September 2013, a holy water rite was performed on the occasion of the start of the new school year 2013-2014 in the Patriarchal Hieratic School on the hill of St Sion. The rite was performed…
On Tuesday the 16th/29th of August 2013, the Spiritual Center of the Bethlehem Pilgrimage was officially inaugurated. The Center is set up at a residence near the Basilica of the Nativity, and the Central Monastery of the Greek Orthodox…
HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM, 22-5-2012 Your Beatitude, It is sincere privilege and profound honour to greet our esteemed guests and my fellow pilgrims of the Order of Saint Andrew to this historical and hallowed pilgrimage in the Holy Land…
November 29, 2011 It is with feelings of great joy that we greet today the 10th General Assembly of the Council of Churches of the Middle East. The Church of Cyprus, and we personally, welcome to our island, with great…
Al-Salaamu ‘Aleikum, “Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν!” I greet you all in Peace. Peace is not just a word for greeting or a word signifying the absence of war. It is something more than a simple word. The notion of Peace is signifying…
Between the 22nd of June / 6th of July and the 23rd of June / 7th of July, the Swedish Christian Study Centre (SCSC) located nearby David’s Gate, organised an International Conference on the Christian presence and its heritage in…
On Monday the 2nd of May 2011, during the visit of the Armenians to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, on the occasion of the feast of Easter, His Eminence Metropolitan Nourhan has addressed His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem with…
