On Friday, June 16, 2023, Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem received the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See, Chris Trott.
On this day Patriarch Theophilos gave the Head of the Rum Orthodox Arabic-speaking Community, Emanuel Awad from the neighboring Ramallah town of Abud, a pectoral priestly cross, on the completion of twenty-three years of his priestly office.
On the morning of Saturday, June 17, 2023, a group of a hundred Georgian people, elderly, middle-aged, and children under the Ambassador of Georgia to Israel Lhasa visited Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and asked for His blessing and for their subsequent visit to the Holy Sepulcher and the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Source: Patriarchate of Jerusalem