On Thursday of Cheesefare Week, 6/19 February 2026, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, received:

Large groups of Priests and pilgrims from various Orthodox countries, including Romania, Russia, and Serbia.
The Abbess of the Holy Monastery of Bethphage, Nun Savvina, accompanied by two iconographers.
A group of 40 pilgrims from Greece, under the guidance of Nun Fotini.
The monk Christos, serving at the Nativity Basilica in Bethlehem, regarding matters of conservation of the Patriarchate’s ecclesiastical relics.
The Abbess Nun Daniilia, concerning matters of the Holy Monastery of the Galilean Men (Galili Viri).

From the Chief Secretariat