Sunday September 24, 2023, H.E. The Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus Msgr. Selim Sfeir visited the Maronite Church of St Joseph in Larnaca and presided the Holy Liturgy.
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Wednesday evening, 13th of September 2023, The Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus, H.E. Msgr. Selim Sfeir, celebrated the liturgy of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, at the Holy Cross Church of Karpasia. F. Andrea Katsioloudis and F. Antoine Succar celebrated with him, the Deacon Elias Liatsos served the liturgy.
The representative of the Maronites in the Parliament, H.E. Mr. Yannakis Moussa, as well as The Head of Humanitarian Issues department for Missing, Detained and Resettled persons Mrs. Anna Aristotelous attended the celebration.
And on Thursday morning, 14th of September 2023, H.E. celebrated at the same church.
The Maronite faithful gathered around the Archbishop who headed the litany of the Old Holy Cross, the symbol of the village which was hold and carried on their shoulders.
The Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus H.E. Msgr. Selim Sfeir celebrated the Holy Mass for the Feast of St. Antonios on Sunday the 3rd of September, 2023 in St Antonios Church of in Kythrea. and by the end of the liturgy, he headed the litany. Many Maronites from different areas joined this annual celebration in Kythrea.
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Saint Mamas Feast
Saint Mamas feast was celebrated on the evening of the 2nd of September 2023 in Saint Mamas of Morphou church. As a sign of friendship and fraternity in Christ, the Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus, H.E. Msgr. Selim Sfeir, was present to participate alongside the Metropolitan of Morphou H.E. Neophytos and H.E. Christophoros of Karpasia
The Archbishop of the Maronite Church in Cyprus H.E. Msgr. Selim Sfeir and the priests of the Maronite Diocese of Cyprus visited today the President of the Republic, Mr. Nikos Christodoulidis.
In his word, Msgr. Sfeir requested the support and the intervention of the President to open of the villages of Asomatos, Agia Marina and the Monastery of the Prophet Elias.
Msgr. Sfeir presented to the President an Icon of St Charbel.
The celebrations of H.E. Archbishop Selim Sfeir in Cambili, Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
H.E. celebrated in Cambili every day from the 12th to the 15th of August 2023, accompanied by several priests from the diocese with the attendance of the faithful from the Maronite villages and from Nicosia.
At the Sunday Angelus on Sunday 9 July, Pope Francis announced that His Beatitude Pizzaballa will be made a Cardinal on 30 September 2023.
Cardinal-elect Pierbattista Pizzaballa was born on 21 April 1965, in Cologno al Serio, in Italy’s Bergamo region.
He made his solemn profession in the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) at St. Anthony’s Church in Bologna at the age of 24 and was ordained a priest the following year.
Proficient in Italian, modern Hebrew, and English, he contributed to the Hebrew translation of the Roman Missal in 1995 and translated various liturgical texts for Catholic communities in Israel.
Since 2 July 1999, he has served as the Custos of the Holy Land, and on 24 October 2020, Pope Francis appointed him as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Benedetta Capelli, Vatican News, 10 July 2023
TRIBUNALI E GIUSTIZIA NELLA CHIESA: ASPETTI STRUTTURALI E RISVOLTI PASTORALI 1-3 GIUGNO 2023
The Maronite Archbishopric in Cyprus hosted in its premises the judicial conference “TRIBUNALS AND JUSTICE IN THE CHURCH: STRUCTURAL ASPECTS AND PASTORAL IMPLICATIONS”, 1-3 June 2023.
The conference was held in the archbishopric with the participation of many key ecclesiastical juridical figures from different countries.
