Students Return from Greece

UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND
ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY

ANNUAL SUMMER TRIP TO GREECE - 2002

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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His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop  of Athens and All Greece at a Vespers 
in the presence of the Balamand Students and Choir

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Feast of the Holy Transfiguration:
The Balamand Choir with His Beatitude Christodoulos, 
Archbishop  of Athens and All Greece

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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