Gerapetritis to attend Sinai Monastery archbishop’s ordination

[InTime News]

Archimandrite Symeon Papadopoulos, who was elected caller abbot and archbishop of the historical Monastery of St Catherine successful Sinai, will beryllium ordained connected October 19 successful Jerusalem by Patriarch Theophilos III.

The authoritative enthronement of the caller abbot will take spot successful Sinai aboriginal on, and will besides beryllium attended by the patriarch, who has the applicable ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, who worked diligently to find a λύση to the months-long tensions betwixt erstwhile archbishop Damianos and a radical of monks who were accusing him of mismanagement, will be the ceremonial astatine the Church of the Resurrection.

The question is whether Gerapetritis will find some clip for a treatment with the patriarch of Jerusalem, who visited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a fewer weeks ago, raising tenable questions astir the relation helium plays successful the Holy Land.

Although the visit was attributed astatine the clip to intra-ecclesiastical frictions – betwixt the patriarchates of Constantinople and Jerusalem – galore radical link his inaugural with the tremendous power that the Russians person successful the Holy Land, who – arsenic is known – are not astatine each blessed with the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.