Services at the
Temple Church

Organ prelude: Sonata no 5, movement 1 (Mendelssohn)
Psalm: The Lord’s my shepherd (tune, Crimond)
Canticles: (Wood in D)
Anthem: Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Organ voluntary: Sonata no 5, movement 2 (Mendelssohn)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Sung by the Temple Singers

Responses: Radcliffe 
Psalm 16
Te Deum: (Stanford in B flat)
Benedictus: chant by Havergal
Anthem: Christus resurgens (Richauffort)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Also available live and thereafter on: www.templechurch.com

His late Holiness Pope Francis sent a written message of support and welcome just a few days before his death. The message will be read out at the start of the service.

Presiding in London:

His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster

The Rt Rev. Archbishop Hosam Naoum, Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem

Presiding in Jerusalem:

His Eminence Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

His Beatitude Theophilus III, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem

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Alongside leaders of Anglican, Armenian, Coptic, Greek, Methodist and Free Church, Pentecostal and Syriac Churches. The service will be in English, Greek, Latin, Aramaic and Church Slavonic.

This ecumenical service marks the 1700^th anniversary of the opening day of the Council of Nicaea (20 May 325). At the Council 318 bishops agreed on the Nicene Creed, the foundational and irreplaceable statement of Christian faith which still unites Christians all over the world. The Son was declared to be homoousious – of the same substance – with the Father: the Son is not a creature, a lieutenant or in any way subordinate to His Father, but is God Himself. The service will bring together Christian leaders and communities for a profound moment of unity and prayer for peace, during this time of brokenness and conflict. We shall pray in particular for peace and safety for the Christian communities in Christ’s own native land.

The Temple Church was built by the Knights Templar to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land. The Round Church (1163, perhaps the first Gothic building built in England) was modelled on the circular church of the Holy Sepulchre / Anastasis (Resurrection) in Jerusalem, the site of Christ’s death, burial and rising. The Holy Sepulchre was commissioned by Emperor Constantine shortly after the Council of Nicaea.

We are very grateful to the Temple Church Trust for making us so welcome, and to The Honourable Society of Inner Temple for kindly making its Bench Apartments available. The service is organised by Friends of the Holy Land and the Temple Church in London.

You will be most welcome to join us for this most special event at the anniversary of an event that has ever since defined and united us all.

Sung by the Temple Church Choir

Organ prelude: Prelude in E flat (Harris)
Introit: The Call (Richard Lloyd) 
Canticles: Stanford in C 
Anthem: A new song (Macmillan) 
Organ voluntary: Flourish for an occasion (Harris)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Please enter the Temple via Tudor Street

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Sung by the Temple Singers

Introit: Be ye followers of God (Thalben-Ball)
Setting: Messa in Alamire (Lotti)
Psalm 15
Anthem: Dextera Domini (Rheinberger)
Organ voluntary: Dankpsalm (Reger)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

Sung by the Temple Singers

Organ: Prelude in C BWV547 (Bach)
Introit: Coelos ascendit hodie (Stanford) 
Respones: (Ayleward) 
Psalm 47 
Canticles: Fifth service (Tomkins)
Anthem: Ascendo ad Patrem (Scheidt)
Organ voluntary: Fugue in C BWV547 (Bach)

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.

This service will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel.