Melkite Greek Catholic
Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
Of Alexandria and of Jerusalem
CP/2012/nhc/05
Gregorios III: Pilgrim for Peace and Reconciliation
On 7 and 8 March 2012, in the context of a European round-trip to the
main episcopal conferences and seats of government, H. B. Gregorios III, Melkite
Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and of
Jerusalem held significant conversations with Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop
of Paris and Ordinary of France’s Eastern Catholics, with Mr Henri de
Raincourt, Minister of Foreign and
European Affairs responsible for Cooperation, and with the Vice-Presidents of
the National Assembly and Senate. The Patriarch was accompanied by Mgr Georges
Bacouni, Archbishop of Tyre.
A pilgrim for peace and reconciliation, Gregorios III had come to talk
about his continuing concern to see peace and reconciliation reign in the Arab
world and Syria in particular.
Furthermore, His Beatitude was received by Rev Charbel Maalouf B.C., priest
of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, Paris’s Melkite Greek Catholic parish, and representative
of His Beatitude in Paris, flanked by members of his Parish Council and
community, for an overview of parish life and to see how far advanced were the
preparations for the European Melkite Convention on 1, 2 and 3 November 2012 at
Aubazine.
Rabweh, 8 March
2012