Ecumenical Patriarchate Announces New Members of the Holy Synod

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Ecumenical Patriarchate Announces New Members of the Holy Synod

September 10, 2021

O Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαίος. (Nikolaos Manginas, Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Service via AP)

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world s Orthodox Christians, reads a statement about the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, following a mass in Istanbul, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Nikolaos Manginas, Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Service via AP)

CONSTANTINOPLE – The Ecumenical Patriarchate announced the hierarchs who will serve on the Holy Synod for the Synodic period of September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022.

The Synodal Hierarchs for the new Synodic period are the following:

1. Geron Emmanuel of Chalcedon

2. Geron Dimitrios of the Princes’ Islands

3. Dimitrios of Metron and Athyron

4. Alexios of Atlanta

5. Joseph of Proikonnisos

6. Meliton of Philadelphia

7. Seraphim οf Sevastia

8. Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain

9. Gennadios of Sassimon

10. Kyrillos of Krini

11. Joseph of Buenos Aires

12. Amfilochios of Adrianoupolis

The Holy Synod is convened once a month, presided by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

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