For further information and a brochure on future pilgrimages please contact the AECA Pilgrimage Secretary either by
email, or post to
Rev'd Andrei Petrine, Pilgrimage Secretary, Anglican and Eastern Churches Association,
The Rectory, 52 Epping Road, Toot Hill, Ongar, Essex, CM5 9SQ
It began with two full days in Istanbul after which we flew to Diyarbakir to begin our time in Tur Abdin.
The Christian villages and monasteries of Tur Abdin lie high on the plateau which waters the Euphrates and Tigris. A border territory in Roman days between Rome and Persia today it is the end of Turkey and looks over Syria and Iraq. Despite a history of occupation and migration it is the centre for the dispersed Syrian Orthodox community throughout the world, and a centre of pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage was lead by the Bishop of Woolwich, Bishop Christopher Chessun.
Fr. Stephen Griffith, formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Apokrisarius to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch and one of the few British Christians who knows the contemporary situation there well was a member of the pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage, as for AECA pilgrimages in recent years, was organised in conjunction with Pax Travel. The cost of the pilgrimage was £1,070.
For further information and a brochure on future pilgrimages please contact the AECA Pilgrimage Secretary either by
email, fax (01622 205149) or post to
Fr. D W. Bond, Pilgrimage Secretary, Anglican and Eastern Churches Association, 6 Denton Close, MAIDSTONE, Kent ME15 8ER.
Here are a collection of articles on past pilgrimages. We will be adding more articles soon.