The meeting of the Permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece was completed, which met today through a teleconference chaired by His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Mr. Jerome.
The Permanent Holy Synod decided that it respects the decisions of the state and condemns the clergy with anti-vaccine sermons, but points out that in practice it can not apply the control of the entrance of believers to temples with a laboratory test.
According to the announcement:
“The Permanent Holy Synod wholeheartedly supports the great effort of the Greek Government for the non-further spread of the pandemic. He reminds that the Church from the first moment stood as a helper of the State in this effort with a word of consensus and a word of responsibility.
It also shares the great effort on the part of our doctors and nurses to deal with the pandemic and supports both practically and morally by urging everyone to be vaccinated according to the instructions of the medical community, freely and effortlessly.
The firm position of our Church is that the choice of vaccination is not a matter of good faith or confession, but an object of medical science and an act of individual and social responsibility. Any opposing view, even of the Clergy, does not represent the Church of Greece, which is officially governed and expressed only by the Holy Synod.
Regarding the Joint Ministerial Decision 72486 / 19.11.2021 (Β ‘5401), according to which the faithful, when entering the Holy Temples to participate in Holy Masses and to worship the True God, must have the prescribed certificates, he considers that the compliance of the faithful with the K.Y.A. it cannot be controlled by the workers (nuns) or volunteer staff of the Holy Temples, as it has neither capabilities, nor guardianship powers, nor public (eg police) powers ”.
The DIS asks the faithful to strictly follow the instructions of the experts to deal with the spread of the coronavirus, necessarily wearing the protective mask throughout their stay in the Holy Temple and observing the prescribed distances.
During his departure, the Archbishop Mr. Jerome did not want to make a statement.
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