Church of Greece prepares for Council in Crete

I again apologize for the machine translation.

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(Amen) - Towards the People will approach the Church with special text will be read at the country's temples and distributed to the faithful after next Sunday the Church will provide the coded proposals to be convened Holy Synod of the Orthodox.

For two days the Hierarchy in extraordinary sessions brought forward a long list eisigyseon, corrections, modifications and changes in the six versions of the agenda of the Pan-Orthodox Synod.

According to the decision of the Hierarchy and after study on a case of these proposals went further processed and additions. Further consolidation of these presentations will be made by the Permanent Holy Synod will meet next week to the final text to be read to the people and sent to the Inter-Orthodox Secretariat of the Holy and Great Council and supported by Archbishop Hieronymus in Agia meetings and Great Synod.

It follows the release of the Holy Synod

He met on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, the second day of the extraordinary convocation, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, under the chairmanship of Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. Jerome, in the Conference Room of the Holy Synod of Bishops.

During the morning session, after the prayer, read out the list of hierarchs participants and it was detected the absence of Eminence Metropolitans Thessaloniki Mr. Anthimos, Lemnos and Agios Efstratios Mr. Ierotheou, Mytilene, Eressos and Plomari Mr. James, Larissa and Tirnavos Mr. Ignatius and Megara and Salamis Mr. Constantine, who was absent justified.

Then they were read and confirmed the minutes of the meeting held on.

Then, according to the agenda, the debate continued on yesterday's report of the Metropolitan Ilia and exported to the conclusions of the conducted discussion.

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece in today's session thoroughly studied the proposals D.I.S., one to one, and made a further elaboration and additions.

Finally, due to the great interest of this fact the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Church of Greece decided to adopt the relevant text with which the people on the matter will be updated.