His Beatitude Patriarch Kyrios Kyrios Theophilos III Presides Over a Solemn Divine Liturgy on the Occasion of the Feast of Pentecost

Sunday, June 10/23, 2024, the Feast of Pentecost was celebrated by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and by the entire Church as the day of commemoration of the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, whom our Lord Jesus Christ sent to His Disciple and Apostles from the Father.

Then, on the day of Pentecost, the Apostles spoke in various languages ​​the greatness of God to the multitudes gathered “by the violent breath” of the Holy Spirit, to whom the Apostle Peter preached and believed and were baptized and formed the first Church, Mother of all Saints of Churches, according to the book of the Acts of the Apostles.

On this occasion, a Solemn Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Holy and Life-giving Tomb, presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch Kyrios Kyrios Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine and Jordan, with the co-celebration of their Eminences, Metropolitan Isychios of Capitolias and the Archbishops, Theophanes, of Gerash, Aristarchos of Constantina and Theodosios of Sebasteia, Holy Sepulchre Hieromonks and Presbyters, the first of whom was the Elder Kamarasis Archimandrite Nektarios, the representative of the Romanian Patriarchate Archimandrite Ioannis. The service was attended by the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem, Mr. Dimitrios Angelosopoulos and many faithful Christians who received the ever-lasting grace of the Holy Spirit…

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