The morning of Saturday 20 February was a day on which the Chair of St Peter was celebrated in St peter’s Church in Tiberias. The celebration, presided by the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, started with the sound of the bells. Also present were Father Giuseppe De Nardi, General Moderator of the Koinonia John the Baptist, Father Andrej Keller, the parish priest of Tiberias and head of the resident community, Fr. Sergio Olmedo Flores from the Convent […]
Just a few days after the Orthodox Christmas, which falls on 7 January according to the Julian calendar, the Custody of the Holy Land visited the heads of the Orthodox Churches for the traditional Christmas greetings. On Monday 10 January, the Franciscan friars started with an encounter for greetings at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, to then continue at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate and, lastly, the seat of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. They exchanged the […]
