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Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Visits Icon Painting Course in Damascus
10 December 2023
His Beatitude Yousef Absi, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, led a delegation to the Damascus Faculty of Theology to review the progress of the icon painting course funded by Regione Piemonte and implemented by H.OPES Foundation. The delegation included Syria’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the President of the Virtual University of Syria, and the President of the Faculty of Theology. Students presented their work under the supervision of Father Theophilus Leos, responsible for the practical sessions in traditional iconography with natural pigments.