The distribution of the amount of 300,000 euros to the metropolises, which were affected by the floods, decided the Permanent Holy Synodwhich met for two days under the chairmanship of the archbishop of Athens and all Greece Hieronymos.

According to her statement, this amount was collected both from the September 14 drive and from offerings of the metropolitan areas of the Church of Greece and is separate from the aid sent in humanitarian material or money directly to the affected metropolitan areas.

Besides, the synodal metropolitan Elassonos Chariton was appointed to visit the regions and their metropolitans and express the support of the Holy Synod.

In addition, according to the announcement, DIS:

  • He was informed by the Synodal Committee of Ecclesiastical Art and Music about the proposal of the Orthodox Center of the Church of Greece for the organization of a Training Seminar on the preventive maintenance of fabric, as well as the maintenance of Holy relics belonging to church collections and approved its implementation, appointing a representative To the most venerable Metropolitan of Thira, Amorgos and the Islands, Mr. Amfilochios, in the seminar in question.
  • He was informed by the Synodal Committee on Christian Education and Youth about the 7th Panhellenic Conference of Youth Priests, Youth Executives and Catechists of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens and the Holy Metropolises of the Church of Greece, which was held from August 31st to September 3, 2023 at the Camping Center of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotidos “Saint Catherine” in New Lokris, with the central theme: “Violence as an anthropological problem. The Orthodox view” and approved the relevant proposals, while deciding to send the conclusions to the Holy Metropolises of our Church and to publish them in the official Magazine “ECKLESIA”.
  • He was informed by the Synodal Committee on Orthodox and Inter-Christian Relations about the work of the General Assembly of the Council of European Churches, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia from 14 to 20 June 2023.
  • It was informed by the Synodal Committee on Ecclesiastical Education and Training of the Clergy: a) on the course of implementation of the operation of the Apprenticeship Schools for Clerical Candidates (SMYK) and decided to speed up the procedures in cooperation with the competent Supervisory Council for Ecclesiastical Education of the Ministry of Education, of Religions and Sports for the operation of the SMYK from next September 2024, and b) regarding the no. 1534-6/2023 of the unanimous Decision of the Plenary of the Council of State regarding the exemption of Secondary Education students from the Religious Studies course and expressed her satisfaction with this Decision of the Supreme Court of our country.
  • It was informed by the Synodal Committee of Social Welfare and Welfare for the Account of the Charitable Ministry during the past year 2022 of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens and the Holy Metropolises of the Church of Greece, for which a total amount of 117,693,581.01 euros was given, as well as 2,343,342.50 kilograms of food of various kinds. The total number of ecclesiastical Charity structures is 4,168, the volunteers 16,222 persons, while the total number of beneficiaries of the Church’s offer is 865,277 our fellow human beings.
  • It was informed by the Special Synodal Committee on Bioethics about its text entitled: “Bioethical Assessment of the Covid-19 Pandemic” and decided to send it to the Holy Metropolises of the Church of Greece and to publish it in the official “ECKLESIA” Magazine.
  • Approved the proposal of the Special Synodal Committee on Cultural Identity regarding the official Presentation of the Volume of the Proceedings of the First Scientific Conference in Memory of Asia Minor Hellenism of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, which will take place on Monday, December 18, 2023 in the Event Hall of the Synodal Palace of the Church of Greece, appointing the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, Mr. Damascenes, as speaker on Her behalf.
  • It decided to disburse: a) the amount of 676,196.82 Euros for the payment in eight (8) equal installments of the corresponding Income Tax for the year 2022 from the leasing of church properties of the Legal Entity of the Central Organization of the Church of Greece and b) the amount of 1,913,395.94 Euros for the payment in six (6) equal installments of the corresponding Uniform Property Ownership Tax (ENFIA) for the year 2022 to the Legal Entity of the Central Organization of the Church of Greece.
  • He was informed by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Messinia, Mr. Chrysostomos, His representative in the Joint Theological Committee for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, about the work of the Plenary Meeting of the aforementioned Committee held in Alexandria, Egypt from May 31 to June 8, 2023.
  • He approved the proposal of the venerable Metropolitan of Ioannina, Mr. Maximos, regarding the establishment of Saint Ieremios, the 1st Patriarch of Constantinople as the Patron Saint of the Municipality of Zitsis, Ioannina.
  • He accepted the resignation of His Eminence the Metropolitan of Achaia Mr. Athanasios from his duties as assistant bishop despite the Holy Archdiocese of Athens and classified him in the ranks of the Schooling High Priests.

Finally, the BIS approved secondments of clergy, dealt with issues of Holy Metropolises, Synodal Committees, the Ecclesiastical Central Finance Service and current service issues.