Elias Chacour

Former Archbishop of Galilee in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Elias Chacour leads the festival evensong at Pusey House chapel.

Pusey House in St Giles was opened in 1884 as a memorial to Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church, who was for 40 years a figurehead of the Oxford Movement, a movement of high church members of the Church of England. Its chapel, designed by Temple Moore and decorated by Ninian Comper, is known as a fine example of Gothic design.

Chacour is well known for his many decades of work to build peace between Palestinians and Jews. He has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize three times. He was Archbishop of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and All Galilee of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 2006 to 2014. He has received many honours including the World Methodist Peace Award, the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, the Peacemakers in Action Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, and the Niwano Peace Prize in Japan.

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