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Πέμπτη 29 Αυγούστου 2019
AUTOCEPHALY WAS PROVIDED TO OCU IN LINE WITH CANONS, HEAD OF GREEK CHURCH TO DECIDE ON ITS RECOGNITION, GREEK SYNOD RESOLVES
The official website
of the Orthodox Church of Greece made a release on the results of the
meeting of the Holy Synod, held on August 26-28 this year.
According to the recommendations of the Synodal committees for the
dogmatic and canonical issues, as well as Orthodox and inter-Christian
relations regarding the Ukrainian question, the Holy Synod of the
Orthodox CHurch of Greece "recognizes the right of the Ecumenical
Patriarch to grant autocephaly as his canonical right; it refers the
privilege of the Primate of the Greek Church to pursue the issue of
recognition of the Church of Ukraine." It was reported by Cerkvarium.