The EU representative in the West Bank and groups of pilgrims to the Patriarch of Jerusalemtranslated

The Patriarch of Jerusalem received a series of visits. Theophilos at the seat of the Patriarchate during the two days of November 9 and 10, 2026. On Monday, November 9, 2026, His Beatitude first received the monk Konstantinos, Superintendent of the Holy Monastery of the Twelve Apostles of Tiberias, with whom he discussed matters of the Monastery. Then he received dr. AndreasFiedler, representative of the European Union in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2026, His Holiness received Mr. Lior Saha, after Mr. Cezar Margieyeh. Also, Elizabeth Kulinsky with whom she discussed issues of the Russian-speaking flock of Jerusalem.

Then he received a group of pilgrims from Ukraine, Russia and Serbia after the Theophilist Bishop Livni Mr. Nektarios. The visiting His Eminence Metropolitan Nizhny Novgorod, Mr. George of the Moscow Patriarchate, accompanied by eight clergymen and sixty pilgrims, who offered Patriarch Theophilos an icon of Saint Kyriacus the Departed, painted in his Metropolis, including Divyeevo, the area of life and practice of Saint Seraphim of Sarof, for safekeeping in the Holy Monastery of Abba Gerasimos of Iordanitos.…