The City of Limassol, Cyprus. The Island's second largest city by population, with its 180,000 inhabitants, is an important transit port on the Mediterranean Sea. Today Limassol is primarily a center …More
The City of Limassol, Cyprus.
The Island's second largest city by population, with its 180,000 inhabitants, is an important transit port on the Mediterranean Sea. Today Limassol is primarily a center of high-tourist interest. And it is precisely in its central and beautiful waterfront location that the Catholic Church of St. Catherine is found, adjacent to a Franciscan monastery. Also here in Limassol (as in Nicosia and Larnaca), the Friars Minor operate the city's only Latin Catholic parish, a reference point particularly for Catholic immigrants and tourists.
Father Zacchaeus Dulniok: "To make lively Church there are the immigrants: many workers who come from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Africa and now the doors are open to Europe, so there are also many Poles."
The Catholics of Limassol are also organizing themselves to go to see the Pope at Paphos or at Nicosia.
Father Zacchaeus Dulniok: "I hope that somehow the Pope will be able to unite the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church ... it would be a miracle, because we are a bit 'separate. There is coexistence, but there is still much to do."
In Limassol, another important entity which belongs to the Latin Catholic institution is the St. Mary School in the city center, founded in 1923 at the request of the Custody of the Holy Land, who entrusted its management to the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. A leading institution especially in the field of language teaching, it has 1000 registered students, only 145 of whom are Catholics. The majority are Greek-Orthodox, like these girls:
Student: "Well ... is a bit different for us because he is someone important to Catholicism, but I think he would be a great person to meet."
Student: "Even if the Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, we must respect him because we know that what he does he does for the good of all humanity."
Roberto Lazy: "I think everyone is anticipating the Pope's visit. And expecting that it will give some clear signs. Even the Orthodox, who in other countries are mostly distrustful of Catholicism, I personally have not yet seen this distrust, this distance against the Pope, who is seen rather as a figure of great importance, of great relevance, a point of reference."
The Island's second largest city by population, with its 180,000 inhabitants, is an important transit port on the Mediterranean Sea. Today Limassol is primarily a center of high-tourist interest. And it is precisely in its central and beautiful waterfront location that the Catholic Church of St. Catherine is found, adjacent to a Franciscan monastery. Also here in Limassol (as in Nicosia and Larnaca), the Friars Minor operate the city's only Latin Catholic parish, a reference point particularly for Catholic immigrants and tourists.
Father Zacchaeus Dulniok: "To make lively Church there are the immigrants: many workers who come from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Africa and now the doors are open to Europe, so there are also many Poles."
The Catholics of Limassol are also organizing themselves to go to see the Pope at Paphos or at Nicosia.
Father Zacchaeus Dulniok: "I hope that somehow the Pope will be able to unite the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church ... it would be a miracle, because we are a bit 'separate. There is coexistence, but there is still much to do."
In Limassol, another important entity which belongs to the Latin Catholic institution is the St. Mary School in the city center, founded in 1923 at the request of the Custody of the Holy Land, who entrusted its management to the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. A leading institution especially in the field of language teaching, it has 1000 registered students, only 145 of whom are Catholics. The majority are Greek-Orthodox, like these girls:
Student: "Well ... is a bit different for us because he is someone important to Catholicism, but I think he would be a great person to meet."
Student: "Even if the Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, we must respect him because we know that what he does he does for the good of all humanity."
Roberto Lazy: "I think everyone is anticipating the Pope's visit. And expecting that it will give some clear signs. Even the Orthodox, who in other countries are mostly distrustful of Catholicism, I personally have not yet seen this distrust, this distance against the Pope, who is seen rather as a figure of great importance, of great relevance, a point of reference."