Chiesa San Giovanni Crisostomo - BARI

Extraordinary example of Romanesque style, church with Orthodox rite. A pearl set in the heart of the old town

In 1957, at the request of several Eastern Christian families, the Catholic Parish of Rito Bizantino of San Giovanni Crisostomo was erected. Three surviving parish priests: Papas Giuseppe Ferrari, Papas Samenco and Papas Antonio Magnocavallo, still parish priest. The Church of St. John Chrysostom, in addition to being a parish of the numerous Byzantine Catholics who frequent it, is outposted and alive reference of Eastern Christian spirituality in Bari, making even shorter the ideal bridge that this city launches beyond the sea. Here, as in the Village Trieste, you practice what elsewhere you teorize. In this church is common experience the brotherly and Christian welcome of the Orthodox brothers with whom he shares the unbroken liturgical tradition. The parish depends on the Eparchy of Lungro (CS).

My grandparents lived there, but I witnessed only one Mass (in Greek). After twenty years, some days ago I managed to enter and attend the holy Friday (which this year, 2019, falls a week later than the traditional and Protestant Catholic one. Suggestive as I always felt the same smell of incense and cedar of Lebanon that I felt when I was small and I entered church to cry.

Small church with orthodox rite in the ancient center of Bari. Very suggestive

In 1957, at the request of several Eastern Christian families, the Catholic parish of Rito Bizantino of San Giovanni Crisostomo was erected. Three surviving parish priests: Papas Giuseppe Ferrari, Papas Samenco and Papas Antonio Magnocavallo, still parish priest. The Church of St. John Chrysostom, in addition to being a parish of the numerous Byzantine Catholics who frequent it, is an outpost and alive reference of Eastern Christian spirituality in Bari, making even shorter the ideal bridge that this city launches beyond the sea. Here, as in the Village Trieste, you practice what elsewhere theorize. In this church is common experience the fraternal and Christian welcome of the Orthodox brothers with whom it shares the unbroken liturgical tradition. The parish depends on the Eparchy of Lungro (CS).