Appeal to the Government of Egypt and the Government of Greece to protect him from any potential danger. Archbishop Sinai Damianos.

In his message, Archbishop Damianos states:

“With the help of St. Catherine and the Virgin Mary, the class and the legitimacy in our Holy Monastery was restored. But my life is already threatened. I beg both the Egyptian government, of which I am a citizen and the Greek also protect me from any risk, “he said in a video message.

Earlier it became known that the monks ‘coup d’etat, who want Mr Damianos’ cessation from the position of the abbot, attempted to invade Sinai Monastery again, after had been removed last nightbut they stayed outside the gate.

Archbishop Damianos, who was in the monastery and their associates demanded intervention by the Egyptian police to remove them, with the situation being complex and difficult.

Indeed, according to associates of the Archbishop, they also launched threats against his life for judicial moves against him.

The group of monks trying to invade the monastery wants the cessation of Archbishop Sinai Damianos from the place of the abbot. At the end of July, 15 monks had convened an assembly and issued a decision to cease.

Mr. Damianos’ associates denounced the approach as irregular and replacement, pointing out that the foreseen was not adhered to. As they said, the assembly was illegal, as a request for a request of 2/3 of the monks were required.

In his statement yesterday, Archbishop Damianos said:

“I arrived this afternoon of August 26 at the Monastery of St. Catherine with the aim of transforming and discussing the small group of monks’ coup d’etat, a tactic I faithfully adhered to all the time, armed with patience and fatherly love.

These monks had planned without my approval meeting to amend the Rules of Procedure of the Monastery in absentia that in accordance with the Regulation I always chair.

My monks attacked me and detained me, as they had done during my last presence in the monastery. The monks who did not participate in the coup defended my humility and the monastery with self -sacrifice the Archbishop and the Monastery and repelled the illegal coup d’etat outside the walls of the monastery.

A General Assembly was already convened with the present monks because the coup d’etat with the penalty of community were unable to participate and a new summary of the monastery that constituted it was a hierarch. Porphyrios Kanavakis, Right, Hierom. Akakios Span, a vicelaver and mon. Ephraim sheep, housekeeper.

The monastery returned to legality and regularity.

Thanks are due to the patron saint and a supervisor of the Monastery of Saint Megalomyra Catherine, who preserves and protects her monastery from the devil’s panties. A great apology is due to the Sinai Monastery and from the crew of the Church because smallness and ambitions of some have become the cause of the faithful and instead of being a monks to be light on the secular with this situation, we worked on the contrary. With a lot of humiliation and crushing we humbly apologize. ”