JERUSALEM: March 23, 2015
Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany Makes an Archpastoral Visit to the Monasteries of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem

His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, Overseer of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, visited the monasteries of the Holy Land. He celebrated his namesday on March 18, 2015, by performing the Liturgy of Pre-Sanctified Gifts, tonsured monastics in both Gethsemane and Ascension Convents, and introduced several REM clergymen to His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem.