The two -day session completed today the Standing Holy Synod of the Church of Greece of the 168th Synodical period, chaired by the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Hieronymos.

According to the announcement issued and regarding the reports of “The First POS in the Church of the Church”, the DIS clarifies that the temple in Athens where it was placed with nothing to do with the Temple of the Orthodox Church of Greece, which – according to a relevant regulation of 20, and the Pos voted on March 11 and Orthodox Churches, and allowed only transactions (donation remuneration, expenditure payments, etc.) of ecclesiastical legal entities using Internet Banking and Iris.

As for the exhibition “The Shallow of the Weird”, DIS, in a letter to the competent (19.3.2025), described the acts of violence within the National Gallery and complained that the exhibition tramples on the religious sense of Orthodox Christians and the Orthodox Christians. The core of the problem is not the freedom of artistic expression, which concerns the artist, but the rules of ethics that bind the National Visual Museum as a public body of culture. The Gallery’s Administration announced that it does not review the selection of exhibits (16.4.2025) and, after their re -exposure (5.5.2025), held a dialogue seminar on the issue (6.5.2025). With the re -exposure predetermined, this workshop acts as a communication management of a intolerance. The twice avoided statements that could exacerbate fanaticism on each side. At the same time, it urges the authorities to respect the sensitivity of the religious sense of the Greek people. “

Subsequently, DIS, after validating the minutes of the authorization, designated the program of festivities for the celebration of the Holy Memory of the Holy Apostle of Paul Nations, founder of the Church of Greece, as follows:

(a) On Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 7.00 pm, at the Church of St. Paul on Psaron Street in the city of Athens, the Festive Hierarchical Vespers will be celebrated, in which the Synodical Metropolitan of Nafpakos will dance. During the Vespers sequence, Archimandrite Damaskinos Petrakos, the first secretary-preractiveist of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, was appointed to speak.

b) On Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 7.00 pm, at the Cathedral of the Apostle Paul Corinth, the Festive Hierarchical Vespers will be celebrated by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece of Hieronymos, with the attendance of the Archbishop of Athens, The Holy Metropolis of Corinth- under the heading “Corinth Paul 2025”. During the Vespers sequence, the Synodal Metropolitan Dimitriados and Almyros Ignatius will speak as a representative of Di.

c) On the morning of the feast, Sunday, June 29, 2025, at the Church of St. Paul on the Psara Street of Athens, the Divine Liturgy and the Divine Liturgy of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece of Hieronymus, will be performed with the participation of Synodical Metropolitans. During the Divine Liturgy will be spoken by the Synod Metropolitan of Nea Fountain and Kalamaria Justin.

d) On the afternoon of the same day at 7:00 pm, on the Sacred Rock of the Supreme Court of the Ancient Athens, in memory of the preaching of the Apostle Paul to the Athenians, the Grand Festive Vespers will be celebrated by the Archbishop of the Archbishop of the Archbishop of Archbishop. other hierarchs and other clergy, monks and the faithful people. During the Vespers sequence, the Archimandrite of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, Archimandrite Ioannis Karamouzis, will speak.

Also during its sessions the DIS:

-He sought the Synodical Circular, compiled by the Synodal Metropolitan of Caesarian, Byron and Ymittos Daniel, on the celebration of the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of the First Ecumenical Council, which will be read in the Holy Temples on Sunday, June 1, 2025.

-I was dated by the Synodical Committee on the Ecclesiastical Education and Training of the Apostolic Clergy on the final number of applications for registration in each ecclesiastical school in Secondary Education for the school year 2025-2026, as was sent by the Department of Religious Education.

-Ented the following proposals by the Special Synod of Divine and Political Economy and Ecology, aimed at further cultivating ecological sensitivity and the development of the environmental action of the Church of Greece: a) The sending of a circular note to the Holy Archdiocese of Athens and the Holy Archdiocese of Athens Any Holy Metropolis, as responsible for ecology and as a link with the Divine and Political Economy and Ecology Committee. b) The organization of a two -day summer interactive program for students and students on “Theology and Natural Environment”. (c) The organization of an interdisciplinary environmental conference from the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece and the Divine and Political Economy and Ecology, in collaboration with the Holy Metropolis of Thessaly and Lanterns, on Monday, September 1, 2025. d) D) Assistance by the Ministry of Education, Religions and Sports and Local Educational Authorities, with the aim of participating in them pupils and students of Primary and Secondary Education and the development of more systematic pastoral cooperation between the Church and the Educational Community on Ecological Issues.

-Ex, following a proposal by the Special Synod of Cultural Identity: (a) the program of the three-day scientific conference on the occasion of the completion of two hundred years from the heroic exit of the Free Siegees of Messolonghi (1826-2026), which will take place in Mesolongi, 18 to Mesolongi, 18 to Mesolongi) On the occasion of completing two hundred years from the heroic exit of the Free Sieges of Messolonghi, during the school year 2025-2026.

-We was released by the Special Synod of Cultural Identity: a) On the conduct of the Pan -Hellenic Student Competition on “Asia Minor – Pontus: Remember” and the Panhellenic Student Competition on “Orthodoxy and Hellenism in Cyprus”

Finally, the DIS approved withstanding clergy and dealt with issues of Holy Metropolises and Synodical Committees, as well as current service issues.

During the break of yesterday’s session, the Archbishop and the Synods accepted the Deputy Minister of Health, Dimitrios Vartzopoulos, who informed them of the issues of his competence, and after the end of the session they visited the Synod of St. Symeon.