Tag: Turkey
Provincial Custody of the Orient and the Holy Land: Towards a...
On July 7-14, 2023, a commission met at the St. Maria Kilisesi Friary in the Büyükdere neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss requests made...
Rome: Turkish Language Edition of Gospels Donated to Turkish Embassy
On Tuesday January 17, 2023, the Director of the Franciscan Missionary Center, Friar Paolo FIASCONARO, donated copies of a recent Turkish translation of the...
Turkey: Course on Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
On October 17-29, 2022, the 16th annual course on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue was held in Istanbul, Turkey.
This traditional event was organized by the...
Turkey: Joint Definitory Session
On October 12-13, 2022, the Definitors of the Province of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M. in Romania and the Definitors of the Provincial...
Turkey: Friar Michał SABATURA Awarded Silver Cross of Merit
On May 25, 2021, the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej DUDA, awarded the Silver Cross of Merit, a high state decoration, to...
Episcopal Ordination of Friar Martin KMETEC
On Tuesday February 2, 2021, our brother Friar Martin KMETEC was ordained the Archbishop of Izmir (Smyrna) Turkey and will perform pastoral ministry in...
Greeting of the Minister General to Friar Martin KMETEC
Prot. N. 0092/2021
The Most Reverend Friar Martin KMETEC, OFM Conv.,
Metropolitan Archbishop of Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey
Dearest brother,
From far away Japan, where I am participating in...
Istanbul-Beyoğlu: St. Anthony’s Bread
Every Tuesday is an extraordinary day at the Church and Friary of St. Anthony of Padua in Istanbul, Turkey. The friary is part of...
Turkey: Missionary Martyrs’ Day
On March 24, the “Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of Missionary Martyrs” will be celebrated. This Day was established in 1993, as...
Turkey-Lebanon: Presentation on the New Constitutions
Friar Timothy KULBICKI, the Secretary of the International Commission for the Revision of the Constitutions (CIRC) visited the friars of the Provincial Custody of...
Greeting of the Minister General on the Solemnity of St. Francis of Assisi, 2023
One day the Gospel was being read in that church about how the Lord sent out his disciples to preach. The holy man...
Southern Italy: Postulancy Year Begins
On September 25, 2023, six men received the Tau Cross as they began their first year of postulancy. The ceremony took place in the...
Cres: 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Archbishop Vitale Antonio BOMMARCO
On Sunday, September 24, 2023, during the 9:30 a.m. Mass, the St. Francis Friary in Cres, Croatia, commemorated what would have been the 100th...
Assisi: Continuing Formation for Friars of Croatia
On September 18-22, 2023, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Later Rule, some friars from the Province of St. Jerome in...
Croatia: 2023-24 Postulancy Program Begins
On Monday, September 25, 2023, four men began their religious formation with the Province of St. Jerome in Croatia. Three of the candidates entered...