For Clergy and Parish Leaders

Bring your parish or community on pilgrimage

A pilgrimage built around your parish calendar and led by your own clergy. Mystakidis Tours has guided Orthodox parishes on pilgrimage since 1959. Every detail is handled from Athens.

What we do

A pilgrimage your parish travels together

A parish pilgrimage is unlike an open departure. It is a journey of your own people, on your own dates, led by your own priest.

Mystakidis Tours has worked with Orthodox priests and parish councils for more than sixty-five years. We build the itinerary around your liturgical calendar and your community, and we handle every operational detail, from the air to the coach to the entrance fees at the holy places.

The parish brings its people and its priest. We bring the experience that makes a pilgrimage of forty pilgrims feel small and unhurried.

How it works

Four steps from inquiry to pilgrimage

1

Send us an inquiry

Share the destination you have in mind, your preferred dates, and a rough sense of group size. Two minutes on the inquiry form.

2

We propose an itinerary

Within a few days we send a tailored itinerary and a no-obligation proposal. It is built around your parish calendar and your priest's vision.

3

Your parish signs up

You announce the pilgrimage to your congregation. We provide the deposit page, the registration, and the materials your parishioners need.

4

The parish travels

The Mystakidis Tours team carries the pilgrimage from arrival to return. Your priest leads. We handle the rest.

For the parish priest

What is handled, what is yours

Your dates, not ours

The pilgrimage is built around the parish calendar, not a fixed catalogue. Set the departure around your feast days and your community's life.

Your priest leads

The spiritual leadership of the pilgrimage stays with the parish priest. We arrange private liturgies at the holy sites, the renewal of baptismal promises at the Jordan, and quiet time for prayer at every stop.

A complimentary place for the priest

The clergy leader travels with the group on a complimentary place on qualifying group sizes. The parish is not asked to fund his seat.

A single point of contact

From the first call to the return flight, one Mystakidis Tours coordinator handles your parish. No handoffs, no confusion.

Every detail, handled

Air, coach, four-star hotels on half board, licensed guides, entrance fees, and the small things that keep a parish trip on the rails.

Sixty-five years of experience

Orthodox pilgrims have walked the holy roads in our care since 1959. Family-owned and operated from Athens.

Destinations

Where parishes travel

Holy Land Pilgrimage

Galilee, Bethlehem, Jerusalem

Greece of the Saints

Patras, Meteora, Thessaloniki

In the Footsteps of Saint Paul

Athens, Corinth, Philippi, Kavala

Constantinople

The Ecumenical Patriarchate

Holy Land and Sinai

Extended, with Saint Catherine's

Egypt

Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids

Pascha in Jerusalem

Holy Week and the Holy Fire

You bring your parish and your priest. We bring the experience that makes a pilgrimage of forty pilgrims feel small and unhurried.
The Mystakidis Parish Promise

Ready to plan a pilgrimage for your parish?

Tell us about your community, your dates, and where you would like to travel. We reply within one business day, with no obligation.

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