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| Volume 6 Number 19 - Tuesday, May 11th, 2004 |
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PM briefed on minister's efforts to mediate Church dispute ATHENS, Greece May 9 (Athens News Agency)- Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis received Education and Religious Affairs Minister Marietta Yiannakou at his office on Saturday morning, a meeting that followed the latter’s contacts with Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos in Constantinopole this past week. Yiannakou is scheduled meet with Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Christodoulos on Monday at the Church of Greece’s headquarters as part of the government’s initiative to bridge recent differences, often bitter, between two of the affiliated Orthodox Churches on the question of how new Metropolitans are appointed in northern Greece bishoprics - the so-called “New Territories”. According to press reports, Yiannakou briefed Karamanlis on her latest contacts at mediating the brewing dispute.
Nevertheless, the
government will issue three presidential decrees
on Monday recognizing the election of three new
Metropolitans in northern Greece (Thessaloniki,
Kozani and the Kavala-area) by a majority of the
Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy
Synod - a development that brought about the
Constantinopole-based Patriarchate’s most recent
condemnation of the
Greece
Church’s
leadership. |
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