{"id":11934,"date":"2022-12-11T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos"},"modified":"2022-12-11T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:59:41","slug":"funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos","title":{"rendered":"Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Asmara, 08 December 2022- Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos, 5th Patriarch of the Tewahdo Orthodox Church of Eritrea, was conducted today, 8 December.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Service in which members of the Holy Synod, Archbishops and members of the clergy from all over the country took part was conducted at the Debre-Tsion Saint Mary Church here in Asmara.<\/p>\n<p>President Isaias Afwerki, Ministers, senior Government and PFDJ officials, delegates of the Sisterly Churches of Egypt and Ethiopia Churches, religious leaders as well as members of the Diplomatic Corps and heads of UN and International organizations in Eritrea attended the Memorial Service at Saint Mary\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n<p>The life history of His Holiness Abune Qerlos was read and representatives of several Churches presented messages of condolences during the Memorial Service.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos was then conducted at Abune Bitsu Amlak Monastery in Godeiti.<\/p>\n<p>His Holiness Abune Qerlos 5th Patriarch of the Orthodox Tewahdo Church of Eritrea passed away on 2 December, at the age of 96.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\">Eritrea<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. 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Memorial Service in which members of the Holy Synod, Archbishops and members of the clergy from all over the country took part was conducted at the Debre-Tsion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[242,243,233],"class_list":["post-11934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-eritrea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Asmara, 08 December 2022- Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos, 5th Patriarch of the Tewahdo Orthodox Church of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Asmara, 08 December 2022- Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos, 5th Patriarch of the Tewahdo Orthodox Church of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eritrea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T11:34:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T11:59:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670745885.61.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"393\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-11T11:34:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-11T11:59:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos\"},\"wordCount\":184,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670745885.61.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eritrea\",\"Eritrea\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/funeral-service-of-his-holiness-abune-qerlos\",\"name\":\"Funeral service of His Holiness Abune Qerlos - 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