Pilgrimage

21-30 October 2014
Light of the East - Celebrating the Sainthood of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II
with Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, Fr Thomas Loya (Light of the East Radio), Jack Figel (leader of the Society of St John Chrysostom in the USA), with an audience of His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew. www.vikingTvl.com for more details - or see here.


7-14 July 2014
Celtic Spirituality Pilgrimage
York, Durham, Lindisfarne and Iona with the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association
www.aeca.org.uk for more details


17 May 2014
Ecumenical Marian Pilgrimage Trust - Day Pilgrimage to the Shrines of Egmanton and Newark
www.ecumenicalmarianpilgrimage.org.uk for more details






11-17 May 2014
Aid to the Church in Need International Freedom of Religion Conference and Pilgrimage, Malta
St Paul's Bay - Valetta - Gozo - Rabat - Mdina - Qrendi - Siggiewi. With Patriarch Gregorios III of Antioch from Damascus, Syria; Sister Hanan Youssef of the Good Shepherd Sisters in Beirut, Lebanon; Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, Nigeria; Bishop Kyrillos William of Assiut, Egypt.
The price of £798 per person includes flights and accommodation. Full details here. Booking through Pax Travel: 020 7485 3003 or info@paxtravel.co.uk




17-26 January 2014
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Jerusalem
with Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust
Details from the Living Stones website


29 November - 11 December 2013
VISIT OF THE HOLY CROSS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

For the first time ever, the relic of the Holy Cross of our Lord in Jerusalem will be in the United Kingdom for Orthodox Christians to venerate. His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and the Synod of the Holy Sepulchre accepted the request of Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain and Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh for the Holy Cross to visit our churches. The holy relic will be taken to numerous churches around the country, in accordance with the below programme:

 

Friday 29.11.2013:
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of All Saints, Camden Town, London

Saturday 30.11.2013:
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Andrew, Kentish Town, London

 

Saturday-Monday 1-3.12.2013:
Russian Cathedral of the Dormition and All Saints, London

Tuesday 3.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition, Birmingham

Wednesday 4.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom, Bayswater, London

Thursday 5.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Church of St Panteleimon, Harrow, London

Friday 6.12.2013:
Greek Cathedral of St Nicholas, Shepherds Bush, London

Saturday 7.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Manchester (a.m.)
Russian Orthodox Church, Manchester (p.m.)

Sunday 8.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Liverpool

Monday 9.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God, Camberwell, London (a.m.)
Greek Orthodox Church of St Nectarios, Battersea, London (p.m.)

Tuesday 10.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Oxford (a.m.)
Russian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Oxford (p.m.)

 

Wednesday 11.12.2013:
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition, Wood Green, London (a.m.)
Greek Orthodox Church of St John the Baptist, Haringey, London (p.m.)

 

 

4-12 October 2013
Syriac & Armenian Christianity in Eastern Turkey
with the Bishop of Southwark, Bishop Christopher Chessun, and The Revd Stephen Griffith, to the remains of western Armenian civilisation in Turkey and then to Tur Abdin, the reviving centre of the Syriac Church.
£1495. Further details from Stephen Griffith.


2-10 October 2013
Istanbul and the Aegean Coast
with the Anglican & Eastern Churches Association to Istanbul, Gallipoli, Troy, Pergamum, Hierapolis, Laodicea, Ephesus
£1475. Further details via the AECA website


3  August 2013
“SPONSORED” PILGRIMAGE FROM METTINGHAM TO BIXLEY

On Saturday 3rd August 2013, Orthodox Reader Mark Tattum-Smith will undertake a pilgrimage from the College of Our Lady of Mettingham to the church of St. Wandregesilius at Bixley near Norwich. This will be a revival of a pilgrimage that we know was actually conducted by the clergy and students of Mettingham College to the shrine of the saint at Bixley throughout the Middle Ages. The route is approximately 20 miles over varied terrain including roads, footpaths and bridlepaths. Once at Bixley there will be a small moleben service to St. Wandregesilius at the now sadly ruined church.

Mark made the same pilgrimage by foot last year in honour of St. Wandregesilius, but this year he wondered if anyone would be interested in sponsoring him in order to raise funds for the Mettingham Orthodox Trust’s “Common Room Appeal”. If you feel moved to do this fill in the form below giving your name and address and the total amount that you would like to give. We would be especially grateful if everyone who is eligible could sign the gift-aid declaration column so that the Trust can receive the full benefit of your donation.

Mark asks that you pray for fine weather and that, through the prayers of St. Wandregesilius, he will be able to complete his pilgrimage.


20-30 May 2013
Jordan & the Sinai
with the Anglican & Eastern Churches' Association, led by Bishop Edward Holland,
to Amman, Petra, St Catherine's Monastery, the Red Sea, Bethany. £1975. Further details on the AECA website.


12-15 March 2013
Ecumenical Marian Pilgrimage to Walsingham

• Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia
• Archbishop Bernard Longley
• Fr John Salter
• Sister Marie Farrell
• Dr Margaret Barker
• Dean Tom Bruch

Details on the EMP Trust website.


4-10 October 2012
Milan with the Friends of the Holy Father
See the website of the FHF

12 May 2012
Heron's Ghyll and Buxted - The Nazareth of Sussex
with the Ecumenical Marian Pilgrimage Trust
Talks by Mr Esme Howard, and Mr Nigel NcNeil
Details from the EMPT website.