PATRIARCHATE

THE NEW AMBASSADOR OF BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA IN ROMANIA ON AN INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE

June 4, 2012 News

The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 31 May 2012, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received His Excellency Mr. Dusko Kovacevic, the new Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Romania, on an introduction visit, at the Patriarchal Residence. Mr. Dusko Kovacevic, Serb of Christian Orthodox denomination, thanked for reception and underlined the good [...]

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IASPORA – A REALITY OF THE PRESENT SOCIETY, INTER-RELIGIOUS SYMPOSIUM AT THE PATRIARCHATE PALACE

May 30, 2012 News

The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 29 and 30 May 2012, an inter-religious symposium will take place at the Patriarchate Palace of Bucharest, on the theme Diaspora – a reality of the present society, organised by the Romanian Patriarchate in cooperation with Sapir Centre of Jerusalem and the Jewish Communities Federation [...]

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HIS BEATITUDE INAUGARATES THE NEW WING OF THE PATRIARCHATE SCHOOL IN TAYBEH

April 19, 2012 News

Jerusalem Patriarchate On Tuesday, the 21st of March / 3rd of April 2012, His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III inaugurated the new wing of our Patriarchate’s school in Taybeh. Taybeh is a suburb of Ramallah with 35.000 residents, three thousand of whom are Arab-speaking Orthodox belonging to the Patriarchate. The Patriarchate of Jerusalem operates [...]

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Orthodox Easter Schedules and Timings in Holy Land – 2012

March 21, 2012 Featured News

21/3/2012 For additional information on group Holy Land tour reservations and pilgrimages please contact Travelujah here: Roman Catholic and Anglican Easter Schedules here: Easter 2012 in the Holy Land will be quite special this year as once again Easter and Passover will coincide. Erev Passover begins at sundown on Good Friday (April 6) and continues [...]

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AID FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY SNOW AND SEVERE COLD

February 6, 2012 News

5/2/2012 In this time of severe cold weather in most regions of the country, the Romanian Patriarchate urges the clergy and faithful from parishes and monasteries to help, together with the departments of social assistance of the eparchies and with the local authorities, the homeless persons, street children, lonely old people and poor families with [...]

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EXPLANATION

January 26, 2012 Featured News

26/1/2012 THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE explains: Because some media channels interpreted the pastoral appeal of the Romanian Patriarchate to prayer, dialogue and cooperation as a partisan political attitude, we remind the fact that the Church wants to be a permanent factor of social peace, not of fighting because only if we are [...]

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Relics of Saint Andrew the Apostle at the chapel of the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation

November 29, 2011 Featured News

29/11/2011 THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE, informs us: Because the protector of the new Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation is Saint Andrew the Apostle, on 29 November 2011, 16.00 hours, a particle of the holy relics of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Protector of Romania, kept in the historical Chapel of the Patriarchal Residence, [...]

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The Church Urges to Discernment and Wisdom When Using Internet

November 29, 2011 News

29/11/2011 THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE, informs us: Taking into account the application of the Ministry for Communications and Informational Society addressed to the Romanian Patriarchate to support the extension of the Internet network all over the country, we declare the following: The Romanian Patriarchate appreciates the efforts of the public authorities for [...]

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A GROUP OF 77 DIRECTORS OF TOURIST AGENCIES FROM RUSSIA VISITS THE PATRIARCHATE

November 18, 2011 News

1/11/2011 Jerusalem Patriarchate On Tuesday, October 19th/ November 1st 2011, 77 pilgrims, directors of tourist agencies in Russia led by the former General Director of the Ministry of Tourism of Israel Mr. Rafi Ben Hur, visited the Patriarchate. Mr. Ben Hur explained to His Beatitude his personally taken initiative to organize pilgrimage tours from Russia [...]

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THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM DECORATES THE EXARCH OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE IN PARIS

November 10, 2011 News

30th October File News On Sunday, October 17th/30th 2011, His Holy Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos decorated in Paris His Eminence Archbishop of Komana Gabriel Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the knighthood Cross decoration of the Holy Sepulcher. This honorary distinction took place in the Patriarchate and in the frame of [...]

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NUNS OF THE HOLY MONASTERY OF SAINT JOHN THE THEOLOGIST OF THE METROPOLIS OF KALABRYTA AT THE PATRIARCHATE

October 27, 2011 News

17/10/2011 On Monday, October 4th / 17th 2011, a twenty-member group of nuns from the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologist under their Mother Superior nun Episteme, being on a pilgrimage visit to the Holy Land visited the Patriarchate. The nuns paid their respects to His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos [...]

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THE PATRIARCHATE CONDEMNS THE DESECRATION OF THE CEMETERIES IN IOPPE

October 14, 2011 News

Jerusalem, 9-10-2011 The Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the first Christian Church of the Holy Land, fostered through the centuries interfaith dialogue based on equality and mutual respect as well as supported the indiscriminate cohabitation and cooperation of the Jewish, the Christians and the Muslims. Continuing Its conciliatory and peacekeeping mission, the Patriarchate condemns the actions of [...]

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THE CHURCH CHOIR “BRANKO” AT THE PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM

October 14, 2011 News

08/10/2011 On Saturday, September 25th / October 8th 2011, two large groups of pilgrims from Serbia one with eighty members and another with forty members constituting the Church Choir Branko of Nis in Serbia and a forty-member group from Thessaloniki visited the Patriarchate. These groups had itinerated the Holy Land during the previous days and [...]

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THE FEAST OF ST. THEKLA AT THE PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM

October 14, 2011 News

09/10/2011 On Friday, September 24th / October 7th 2011, the feast of St. Thekla the Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles was solemnly celebrated at the Patriarchate. The feast was held at the chapel named after the Saint to Her honor inside the Central Monastery of the Fathers of the Holy Sepulcher to the west of the Monastic [...]

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THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC MR. KAROLOS PAPOULIAS VISITS THE PATRIARCHATE

July 30, 2011 News

On Monday, 28th of June / 11th of July, the President of the Hellenic Republic His Excellency Mr. Karolos Papoulias, visited the Patriarchate of Jerusalem during his time in the Holy Land in the context of his official visit to the State of Israel and to the Palestinian Authority. His Excellency the President was accompanied [...]

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550th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE

June 2, 2011 Featured News

29/5/2011 On Sunday 29 May 2011, the Armenian Church and the Armenian Community in Constantinople celebrated the 550th Anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Patriarchate. Source:

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THE RELATIONS OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE WITH THE PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM ARE ON THE AGENDA OF THE SESSION OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF 19-20 MAY 2011

May 10, 2011 Featured News

10-05-2011 THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE informs us: While referring to the communiqué posted on 9 May 2011 on the official website of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, under the title The Patriarchate of Jerusalem has severed communion with the Romanian Patriarchate, we bring the following clarification: Although during the visit that His Grace [...]

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THE CHIEF OF THE HELLENIC POLICE VISITS THE PATRIARCHATE

November 12, 2010 News

Patriarchate of Jerusalem On Saturday, 17th / 30th of October 2010, the Chief of the Hellenic Police (EL.AS) Mr. Eleftherios Economou along with a small escort and accompanied by the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem, His Excellency Mr. Athanasios Sotiriou, was received at the Patriarchate by His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III. The [...]

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COMPLETION OF THE DELIBERATIONS OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF ALEXANDRIA

October 15, 2010 News

Patriarchate of Alexandria The deliberations of the Holy Synod were completed on 8th October 2010 with the completion of the reports to the Body of the Hierarchs by the Metropolitans and Bishops, who read their activities reports for the past year, or the representations of the Alexandrian Church at Inter-Orthodox, inter-ecclesiastical and inter-Christian dialogues, …

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Press Release: Social Economy of Present Interest

September 27, 2010 News

PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE informs us From 27 – 28 September 2010, a session of training of those involved in projects of social economy and reintegration of the former prisoners will take place at the Social-Cultural Centre of Saint Hierarch Calinic at Cernica Monastery. The event is organised by the Philanthropy Foundation in [...]

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A GROUP OF AFRICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS AT THE PATRIARCHATE

August 12, 2010 News

3/8/2010 Patriarchate of Jerusalem On Tuesday 21st of July / 3d of August 2010, a group of African Religious Leaders, Christian and Muslim, led by Rabbi Dr. David Rozen, visited the Patriarchate.  Coming from 6 African countries and numbering around 15 persons, they were received by His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III.  They were [...]

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THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE IS SOLIDARY WITH THE ITALIAN PEOPLE

July 1, 2010 News

In the context of the debate at the European Court for Human Rights, on 30 June 2010, related to the appeal of the Italian state concerning the right to display the crucifix in public places, the Romanian Patriarchate, which has, at present, over one million Romanian Orthodox faithful in Italy, supports the present initiative of [...]

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THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINA VISITS THE PATRIARCHATE.

June 26, 2010 News

Jerusalem Patriarchate On Monday, 1st / 14th of June 2010, His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III received his Excellency Mr. Nicola Spiric, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia & Herzegovina. The Chairman of the Council expressed his gratitude to His Beatitude for the cordial welcome and conveyed regards from the citizens of [...]

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PASTORAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAMME IN TIME OF CRISIS

June 22, 2010 News

strong>THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE informs us: During the weekly working session of 17 June 2010, held in the Synodal Room of the Patriarchal Residence under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the Standing Meeting of the Church National Council decided that the Romanian Patriarchate should present a pastoral and social programme [...]

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