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REMARKS AT THE CELEBRATORY DINNER IN HONOUR OF THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF HIS HOLINESS KIRILL PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA.
19 November 2016 Your Holiness, dear Brother, Your Beatitudes, our Fellow Primates, Your Eminences, Yours Excellencies, Reverend Fathers, We rejoice with you, Your Holiness, and we congratulate you on your 70th birthday, and we also recognize that this...
Read MoreHIS BEATITUDE THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM PARTICIPATES IN CELEBRATIONS FOR THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF THE PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW
Responding to an invitation by Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia to participate in His 70th birthday, Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem left Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, on Friday, the 5th/18th of November 2016, via Aeroflot airlines. He was...
Read MoreCHRISTMAS EVENT IN QATAR
On Friday the 18th of November 2016, a Christmas Bazaar, supplemented by a performance featuring various local traditions, took place in the area between the Bishopric and the Cathedral of the Archbishopric of Qatar. The event included Christmas songs by...
Read MoreTHE FEAST OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE RELICS OF ST GEORGE THE TROPHY BEARER IN LYDDA
On Wednesday, the 3rd/16th of November 2016, the Patriarchate celebrated the translation of the relics of St George the Trophy Bearer in the city of Lydda. The feast commemorates the translation of the holy relics of St George from Rome...
Read MoreTHE TRANSLATION OF THE RELICS OF ST GEORGE OBSERVED IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM (2016)
On Wednesday, the 3rd/16th of November 2016, the Patriarchate observed the memory of the translation of the relics of St George the Trophy-Bearer, at the Monastery of St George ‘of the Hospital’ in the Old City of Jerusalem. Vespers and...
Read MoreST JOHN HOSTEL SETTLERS VIOLATE PILGRIMAGE STATUS AGAIN
On Sunday, the 31st of October/13th of November and Monday the 1st/14th of November 2016, settlers-invaders of St John Hostel, members of the Ateret Cohanim organization, misinterpreting and distorting a temporary agreement signed between the Patriarchate’s legal consultants and their...
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