Religious organizations

Metropolitan Cleopas Spoke at Archdiocese of America’s 100th Anniversary Conference

A circular issued by the Holy Synod about protecting unborn children will be read today in all the Churches

The PM will attend the Holy Synod next week

Four days after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that faithful at Orthodox churches will have to present a negative COVID-19 rapid test in order to enter a church, the Holy Synod, the Church's executive organ, announced that it does not have the wherewithal to conduct such checks at the entrances of Church's.

Health Minister Vasilis Kikilias and Athens University Medical School Professor of Epidemiology Sotiris Tsiodras met today with the 12-member Permanent Holy Synod to persuade the Orthodox Church of Greece to join the state's massive vaccination push to build a wall of immunity by the end of August.

The Permanent Holy Synod (DIS) met for two days via a teleconference

The SPC Holy Synod will probably be held in the crypt of the Temple of Saint Sava, Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia and guardian of the patriarchal throne of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Chrysostom, told Tanjug.
However, he notes that the final decision on where Synod will be held will be made on February 10.

This decision was made by the Holy Synod of Bishops as the supreme canonical authority in the Church, authorized to schedule sessions of the highest church body.

The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has announced that each metropolitan will be responsible for the reopening of his local parishes which closed due to the coronavirus, in accordance with local health and public safety mandates.

Both the government and the Church of Greece clarified Thursday that churches will only be open for clerics during Orthodox Holy Week, in line with state efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and called on the faithful to pray at home.