Tag: france

The Tablet – Bishop denounces Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch

The Tablet – Bishop denounces Syrian patriarch A prominent French bishop has accused Gregory III Laham, the Damascus-based Melkite Greek Patriarch of Antioch, of scheming with President Bashar al-Assad to block a…

Byzantine Ukrainian Faithful of France given Eparchy

VATICAN CITY, January 21, 2013 (Zenit.org). Benedict XVI has elevated the apostolic exarchate for Ukrainian faithful of the Byzantine rite resident in France to the rank of eparchy (diocese). The new eparchy…

Patriarch Gregorios’ Pilgrimage for Peace to France

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…

The Man in the Iron Mask

Fr John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2010:      Some weeks ago I was browsing through Donald Attwater’s book The Christian Churches of the East in Communion with Rome, when I came…

Cargese – The Greek Village of Corsica

From Light of the East, May-June 2010, Newsletter of SSJC Youngstown Ohio Chapter, from a contact in Greece In 1673, 800 residents of the town of Itilos of the Mani district of…

French court rules Orthodox cathedral in Nice belongs to Russia

Associated Press reports on January 20th 2010: A French court ruled Wednesday that a Russian Orthodox cathedral built on the French Riviera nearly a century ago under Czar Nicholas II now belongs…

French Seminary Trains for Orthodox Resurgence

Ecumenical News International reports from Epinay-sous-Senart, France, January 5th 2010: Inside a plain stone building that was once a Catholic convent in the center of town, a dozen black-robed seminarians struggle over…

Heavenly Birth of Archimandrite Symeon of Tolleshunt Knights

Archimandrite Symeon on his Golden Jubilee in Monastic Life Archimandrite Symeon died in the very early hours of Friday 21 August at the monastery of St John the Baptist where he lived…