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The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, on Saturday attended the graduation ceremony at the Patriarchate’s St. George School, which took place in the city of Ramallah. His Beatitude was accompanied by Patriarchate hierarchs, clerics from the Church of Greece, foreign diplomats and local office-holders at the celebratory ceremony for 33 graduates of the…

A second equally historic archieratical Divine Liturgy was performed today by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Clement in the city of Skopje, with the resident Archbishop of Ohrid, His Beatitude Stefan, co-officiating. The Patriarch of Serbia arrived in the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia at…

The Holy Community of Mount Athos, the venerable semi-autonomous monastic community in northern Greece, this week issued an announcement regarding the tragedy of war in Ukraine. The announcement comes only a days before the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, is due to visit Mount Athos. The Holy Community expressed its deep…

Α Greek government spokesman on Monday evening dismissed the latest, but even more egregious statements by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the southeast European country’s leadership. Erdogan apparently took umbrage with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ recent high-profile visit and statements in Washington D.C. Government spokesman Yannis Economou underlined that Mitsotakis is “…strongly and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Symeon, the Stylite of the Mountain.

On Sunday, May 9/22, 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of the Samaritan woman according to the book of Pentecostarion. On this feast, the whole Church and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates the event that has been handed over to us by Saint John the Evangelist (John 4, 5-42). According to this narrative, a…

On Saturday evening, May 8/21, 2022, the graduation ceremony of ‘Saint George’ School of the Patriarchate took place in Ramallah. The ceremony was held at the reception hall in a town hotel with the honorary presence of H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, who was accompanied by Geronda Secretary-General, His Eminence Archbishop Aristarchos…

On Friday, May 7/20, 2022, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the appearance of the sign of the Precious Cross in the heavens. On this feast, the Church, and especially the Church of Jerusalem celebrates the event that took place in AD 351, at the third hour, which is at nine o’clock in the morning,…