Fr John Salter writes: Patriarch Stephanos II died earlier this year in the Italian hospital in Cairo. He was born in Sheik Zein el-Dine, in the Eparchy of Sohag on 16th January…
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Fr John Salter writes: Pamela Torphichen was a devout Roman Catholic and a keen ecumenist long before it became acceptable or fashionable to be so. It was while at school at the…
Fr John Salter writes: Abba Marcos died on 11th May 2008 in the Hospital of Our Lady of Good Remedy while visiting Barcelona. He was born in Holland on 20th August 1923.…
Fr John Salter writes: His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, Melkite Greek Catholic of Antioch and All The East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, the Bishops of the Holy Synod of the Melkite…
Canon Richard Rutt writes: Joan`s parents, Arthur John Ford (clerk in the railway Clearing House) and Esther Paine, came from Cheddar, where Joan spent her childhood summer holidays. She was born at…
Archbishop Anastasios of Albania & Patriarch Teotist Fr John Salter writes: Patriarch Teotist of Romania died in July 2007 of a heart attack following major surgery for prostate gland trouble in the…
Fr John Salter writes: News has reached us via the Right Reverend Joseph Francavilla of the Melkite Greek Catholic community in the United States that Reema Damaha of the Melkite church of…
Fr John Salter writes: Visitors to the Melkite Patriarchate at Raboueh, Lebanon, will have received a warm welcome from Sister van den Plas (pictured, left, with Patriarch Maximos V and a colleague).…
Fr John Salter writes: Archbishop Christodoulos died on 28th January 2008. He had been suffering ill health for some time and in 2007 he underwent a liver transplant which was not successful.…