While the Patriarchate acknowledged procedural omissions in how the Church of Cyprus handled the case relative to its own charter, the Holy Synod nevertheless unanimously ratified the Cypriot decision.
Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem consecrated Archimandrite Symeon as the new Archbishop of Sinai, Pharan and Raitho at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre yesterday, October 19.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople has canonized two more Romanian monks from Mt. Athos: the founder of the Romanian Prodromou Skete, Hieroschemonk Nifon (Ionescu) and St. Nectarie (Crețu) the Protopsaltis.
The Nenets are the most numerous of the Samoyedic peoples, with approximately 45,000 members. They live in northern Western and Eastern Siberia and also inhabit islands in the Arctic Ocean. Christianity came to the Nenets in the 18th century through Russian missionaries.
Three monasteries whose abbots and abbesses were previously deposed have left the jurisdiction of the Georgian Orthodox Church and gone into schism.