On Monday 24, April 2023, after Thomas Sunday, Metropolitan Ioannikios of Montenegro and a group of pilgrims with him, Priests, and laity, visited Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and asked His blessing and congratulated Him on the feast of Pascha.
After that, the Priests and members of the Bethlehem Community, under the Patriarchal Representative in Bethlehem, Metropolitan Benedictos of Diosaecarea, followed by the Priests of Beit Sahour, the Stewards of Taybe from Ramallah district, and the Stewards of Ramle, the ancient Arimathea, under their Hegoumen Archimandrite Niphon, who invited the Patriarch of Jerusalem at the feast of Ramle, next Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women.
Source: Patriarchate of Jerusalem