The Feast of Pentecost at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem Presided Over By His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III
Published from the Website of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
On Sunday, 26 May / 8 June 2025, the Patriarchate celebrated the Sunday of Pentecost, in accordance with the Book of Pentecostarion, as the day commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the holy Disciples and Apostles of Christ. On this day, through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, the Apostles spoke “in other tongues the wonderful works of God” to the multitudes who had heard the mighty wind of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, believed, and were baptised—those who were added to the Church on that very day, about “three thousand souls” (Acts 2:1–41).
On the occasion of this Feast, His Beatitude Theophilos III, Greak Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, presided over the Divine Liturgy at the All-Holy and Life-Giving Tomb of the Lord. Concelebrating with His Beatitude were His Eminence Metropolitan Isychios of Kapitolias; Their Eminences Archbishop Theophanes of Gerash, Aristarchos of Constantina, Theodosios of Sebastia, Dimitrios of Lydda; and His Eminence Metropolitan Joachim of Helenopolis, along with Hieromonks of the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood led by the Elder Kamarasis Archimandrite Nektarios, Archdeacon Mark, and other deacons. Priests representing the Patriarchates of Russia and Romania also concelebrated. The chanting was led by the chief cantor, Deacon Efstathios, together with students of the Patriarchal School of Zion. It was attended by devout pilgrims and faithful from Jerusalem, in the honorable presence of the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem, Mr Dimitrios Angelosopoulos…
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