Welcome to the Melkite Church
St Barnabas' Church, Pimlico, London SW1W 8PF
Holy Week & Easter
Holy Thursday
Thursday 28 March - 8PM
Pimlico Road
Easter Monday
Monday 01 April - 12 Noon
Oxford City
Good Friday
Friday 29 March - 6PM
Pimlico Road
Holy and Great Saturday
Saturday 30 March - 8PM
Pimlico Road
The Great and Holy Easter
Sunday 31 March - 12 Noon
Pimlico Road
Our
Story
Get to Know Us
The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. Its chief pastor is Patriarch Youssef Absi, headquartered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition, Damascus, Syria.
The Melkite Church, like many other Eastern Catholic particular churches, shares the Byzantine Rite with the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and other Eastern Orthodox churches. It is mainly centered in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine. Melkite Greek Catholics are present, however, throughout the world by migration due to persecution of Christians. Outside the Near East, the Melkite Church has also grown through intermarriage with, and the conversion of, people of various ethnic heritages as well as transritualism. At present there is a worldwide membership of approximately 1.6 million.
Leading our Parish, is the Archimandrite Shafiq.
Address: St Barnabas' Church, Pimlico, London SW1W 8PF