UNIVERSITY
OF
BALAMAND
ST
JOHN
OF
DAMASCUS
INSTITUTE
OF
THEOLOGY
Every year, students from St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology visit Greece during the summer to study Greek and visit the holy Christian shrines and monasteries, especially Mount Athos. This year, the students resided at the Monastery in Pendeli, near Athens, where they took for almost two months an intensive Greek course. Below are some pictures that describe their journey.
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Feast
of
the
Holy
Transfiguration: The Balamand Choir with His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece
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The Balamand Students in Pendeli with His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece |
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The
Choir
of
St.
John
of
Damascus
Institute
of
Theology
chanting
in
the
Service
presided
by
His
Eminence
Bishop
John
Thermopilon
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Feast of the Dormition with His Eminence Bishop John Thermopilon, Abbot of the Pendeli Monastery |
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Honoring
the
Teachers
of
Greek
Language
at
the
Pendeli
Monastery
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A Group picture with His Eminence Bishop John Thermopilon in the Monastery of Pendeli |
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In
Ormylia,
with
Bishop
John
of
Balamand
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In the Holy Annunciation Convent, Thiva |
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| Balamand Choir Chanting at the Gregoriou Monastery - Mount Athos | With
a
Monk
in
the
Simono
Petra
Monastery
-
Mount
Athos
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A
Pastoral
Tour
in
the
Archdiocese
of
Thiva, with Metropolitan Ironimos of Thiva, and Archimandrite George Abbot of the Monastery of the Righteous Luke, and Bishop John of Balamand |
With Metropolitan Kalinikos of of Piraeos |
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Bishop
John
of
Balamand
presents
a
gift
to
Metropolitan
Ironimos. Sitting to the left is the Abbess of the Monastery of Jerusalem |
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| With Bishops Ironimos of Thiva, Nicolaos of Vetiotidos, and John of Balamand | |