BISHOP KALLISTOS IN BALAMAND
June 11-19, 2003

See the Brochure of the Visit

At the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology (June 11-12)



Bishop Kallistos with the Balamand Institute of Theology Dean, Professors, Staff and Students
 


The Audience Attending the Lectures of Bishop Kallistos


Speaking about Renewal of the Divine Liturgy
 


During the Lectures, the students had many questions to ask
 


Why do We Believe that God is Trinity?
 


At the end of the Lectures, the Dean, Bishop JOHN Yazigi,
presented to Bishop Kallistos an Epitrachilion and an Omophorion
as an expression of love to His Grace


 


Bishop Kallistos and Bishop John at the High Cathedra, behind the Altar Table, during the Sunday of Pentecost


Holy Pentecost Liturgy

 

 

      

At the Archdiocese of Beirut (June 11)


In Beirut, a talk about Christian Unity. In the audience, His Eminence Metropolitan Elias, Mr. Yaacoub Sarraf, the Mayor of Beirut
and a large crowd
of Orthodox faithful.


At the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut, with His Eminence Metropolitan Elias Aude

 

At the Archdiocese of Akkar


Metropolitan Boulos Bandali
 along with faithful and clergy of the area

Bishop Kallistos speaking about Words and Silence: the Meaning of Inner Prayer.

 

At the Archdiocese of Tripoli (June 14)


A Talk about Christian Unity. Metropolitan Elias Kurban and clergy in the front row of the audience

Mr. George Nahas introducing His Grace and Ms. Catherine Srour Translating

 

In Damascus (June 15-16)



The Public Lecture about The Orthodox Church in the New Millennium of Bishop Kallistos in Damascus, in the presence of His Beatitude Patriarch IGNATIUS IV, some of the Hierarchs of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and the Ambassador of Greece in Damascus


A Talk about Christian Unity in Damascus, in the presence of His Grace Bishop Ghattas and other clergy

 

At the Archdiocese of Lattakya (June 17)



In Lattakya, speaking about The Orthodox Church in the New Millennium at the Church of St. George, in the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan Youhanna Mansour

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