Tag: obituary

Death of Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria – Memory Eternal

  Fr John Salter, chairman, writes in Chrysostom, Advent-St Nicholas 2012: The death occurred in Sophia, Bulgaria, on 6th November 2012 of His Holiness Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria. He was the longest serving head…

Patriarch Abune Pavlos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Remembered

Patriarch Abune Pavlos, with Pope Shenouda of the Copts (left) Fr John Salter, chairman, writes in Chrysostom, Advent-St Nicholas 2012: Following on the death of Pope Shenouda was the death of the…

DEATH OF PATRIARCH MAXIM OF BULGARIA

Vatican City, 7 November 2012 (VIS) – The Holy Father sent a message of condolence to the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church following the death of His Beatitude Maxim, Metropolitan…

Eternal Memory: Mother Thekla

Father John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2012: Mother Thekla was born Marina Sharf into a family of Jewish descent in the Caucasian town of Kislovodsk, just as the Russian Revolution was beginning, in…

Eternal Memory: Father Gregory Winterton Cong.Orat.

Fr John Salter, chairman, writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2012: It was on St.Stephen’s day 1954 that I last met Father Winterton. He was then Priest-in-charge of the Anglican church of St. George’s, Wolverhampton. I…

Memory Eternal: Dr Fouad Megally

Fr John Salter, Chairman, in Chrysostom, Pascha 2012, writes: I first met Dr. Fouad in 1974 or thereabouts, some thirty-seven years ago, when I was General Secretary and later Chairman of the Committee of the…

Eternal Memory: Canon Roger Greenacre

Fr John Salter, Chairman, writes in Chrysostom, for Pascha 2012: It was at the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham that I first met Roger Greenacre in 1959. Roger was in between jobs…