Tag: eastern catholic

Greetings to Patriarch Sviatoslav of Ukraine from Patriarch Gregorios of Antioch

    Prot. 173/2011D                                                                   Damascus, 23/3/2011   Greetings of H. B. Gregorios III Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem for the enthronement of the new Major…

Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of the Syro-Malankara Church

This is the address of Benedict XVI to bishops of the Syro-Malankara Church, who have just completed their five-yearly “ad limina” visit. Dear Brother Bishops, I welcome all of you here today…

Bishop Bechara Rai elected Maronite Patriarch

BKERKE, Lebanon, MARCH 18, 2011 thanks to Zenit.org Bishop Béchara Raï has been elected as the 77th patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites. He was elected Wednesday, receiving more than two-thirds of…

Patriarch Gregorios attends Retirement of Maronite Patriarch

Patriarch Gregorios III attends Maronite Patriarch’s Diamond Jubilee of Priesthood On Saturday, 05 March 2011, Patriarch Gregorios III, in company with the Syrian Catholic and Armenian Catholic Patriarchs, attended the Jubilee and…

Patriarch Gregorios’ Pastoral Letter for Great Lent 2011

Prot. Nº 96 /2011D                                                        Damascus, 24 February 2011       Letter of H. B. Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, for Great…

The Long-Suffering Copts

Fr John Salter writes, in Chrysostom, Pascha 2011: Of the so-called Monophysite Churches the Copts and the Armenians have borne untold suffering for the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The fifteen centuries of…