Meeting with the priests of Damascus and Rural Damascus in the Patriarchal Monastery of St. George Al-Humeyra
With the blessing and presence of His Beatitude Patriarch John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, the meeting of priests, serving in the Diocese of Damascus and Rural Damascus, was launched on Monday, June 6, at the Patriarchal Monastery of St. George Al-Humeyra and will continue until Thursday, June 9.
The meeting was opened by Vespers presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch John X in the monastery church. Then, His Beatitude delivered a welcoming and guiding speech, in which Patriarch John X underlined the cruciality of the meeting and fraternal gathering. His Beatitude explained that the conglomeration wi bring personal and spiritual benefit to every single priest on the one hand, as well as to all the assembled and serving priests in the diocese on the other, through the exchange of pastoral experiences, concerns, and aspirations.
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