Dear brothers and sisters,

By the blessing of Archbishop Aristovoulos, we are pleased to announce that you now have the opportunity to register as members of our community through the 📃 online form. Registration can also be done using a paper form by filling out the questionnaire at the church.

Registration purposes:

• To become more closely acquainted with our parishioners.

• Registered members of the community (and their living and deceased close relatives) will be included in the permanent memorial lists, which are remembered at each Divine Liturgy.

• Registered members (if they wish) can be added to the parish’s WhatsApp groups, where parish news and announcements are shared.

The information collected during registration will not be shared with third parties and will be used solely for the needs of parish life.

We invite all those interested to become part of our prayer community and to stay in touch with the parish.

For any questions, please contact father Mark:
Mobile phone / WatsApp: +972-(0)54-467-1747
(call between 18:00 and 21:00)

With love in Christ,
Capernaum

Please monitor for updates below before your arrival at the monastery:

Until further updates the church is closed to visitors. The church only opens on days that a liturgy is scheduled (usually Saturday).

The schedule of liturgies is published on the site. If the schedule is not present it is possible to find out the liturgies schedule by contacting priest Sergey Dvoretsky at mobile phone number: +972-(0)52-8791922 (please to call from 6 pm to 9 pm) or e-mail: kalkamannl@mail.ru

If there is a need to put candles for the commemoration of the dead due to a relative passing away, it is requested to contact the head of the monastery, Monk Irinarchos via Mobile Phone number: +972-(0)532840991 to schedule arrival time.

All pilgrims and visitors!

The water company has prohibited the monastery to use the Kinneret water (Sea of Galilee) at a reduced agricultural tariffs, the only option offered by the water company is to buy water from the springs flowing into the Kinneret, at a price higher in 8 times! than the previous rate. The offered price of cubic meter of water is 8 NIS or 30,000 NIS per year. That is unacceptable to the monastery.

In this situation, the abbot of the monastery is in fact forced to let the garden and the vegetation around the monastery to dry out and restrict attendance at the monastery. So, starting from July 15, 2016, the garden is no longer receives the appropriate care, entrance to the monastery on Monday is prohibited, in the rest of the week the entrance to the monastery is closed from 12:00 to 14:00.

The only hope to reestablish the former vital functioning of the monastery is for the monastery to be allowed to buy water according to the previous agricultural tariffs as used by other consumers located on the coastline of the Kinneret.

Any help in resolving the conflict (non-financial) would accepted with a blessing.

Brother Irinarchos,
Abbot of 12 apostles Monastery in Capernaum.
Tel: 053-2840991

Since mid-July 2016 Priest Nikolay will carry services only in the monastery of 12 Apostles in Capernaum. In the monastery in Tiberias the services will be carried by abbot Dionysius on Saturdays. See an updated schedule of services for July-August 2016. at the bottom.

Also, depending on the schedule Priest Nikolay will conduct reception on the day before the Liturgy on Friday on matters of confession and personal matters. This opportunity is available to all parishioners and especially the new due to the limited time allocated to confession before the liturgy.