(HLCCC) - His Beatitude Gregory III inaugurated the Holy Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, on Monday, 2nd of June, 2008, at the Patriarchal Residence in Lebanon.
At the conclusion of the meetings, the Synod announced in a statement, a renewal in designations. Bishop George Baker, the Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem, was appointed as the new General Patriarch Vicar of the Diocese of Egypt and Sudan. As well as Bishop Joseph Zrei'i, the General Patriarchal Vicar of Egypt and Sudan, was appointed as the new General Patriarch Vicar of the Diocese of Jerusalem.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Melkite synod completed
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the cited spellings of names and seemingly curious new titles of our melkite bishops may mislead readers;
ReplyDeleteplease understand that it would probably be beneficial to us and others to leave these types of announcements to our eparchial communications office
thank you; God Bless!
I'd tell the "Holy Land Catholic Communications Centre." It is a direct cut and paste of their news story found here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.catcc.net/en/notizie/synod-of-the-melkite-church.html
They have the benefit of "pushing" news via RSS and updating their news section frequently. Antioch (and Newton for that matter) is a tad slower at publishing updates in English and there is no newsletter to subscribe to.