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THE FEAST OF THEOPHANY AT THE PATRIARCHATE
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Despotic feast of Theophany was celebrated at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. At the Catholicon of the Church, His Beatitude held the service of the Great Blessing of the Water with the contrite hymns of Theophany and the...
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THE FOREFEAST OF THEOPHANY AT THE PATRIARCHATE
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Thursday, January 5/18, 2024, the Great Royal Hours of Epiphany were read in the monastic and Patriarchal Holy Church of Saints Constantine and Helen of the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood, presided over by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem...
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VISITS TO HIS BEATITUDE
On Tuesday, the 3rd / 16th of January 2024, H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos received on the occasion of Christmas and New Year’s Day: Bishop Christopher Chessun Bishop of Southwark of the Anglican Church and member of...
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THE FEAST OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT AT HIS HOLY MONASTERY IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On the morning of Sunday, January 1, 2024, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia at his chapel located between the Holy Monastery of Saint Theodore and the New Gate. On the...
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THE FEASTS OF THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE LORD AND SAINT BASIL THE GREAT AT THE PATRIARCHATE
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On the night of January 1/14, 2024, the Despotic feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and of Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia, was celebrated in the Patriarchate. This holiday was solemnly celebrated as a “parresia”...
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THE CEREMONY OF THE CUTTING OF THE NEW YEAR CAKE AT THE PATRIARCHATE
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At 5:00 p.m. on December 31, 2023/January 13, 2024, the last day of the year 2023 (Old Calendar), the traditional ceremony of cutting the Vasilopita, the cake which tradition associates with the charitable action of Saint Basil the Great, took...
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