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Women deacons, new ministries, and oversight of bishops are among the topics in the Synod on Synodality's 37-page Synthesis Report in preparation for 2024.

During the flight back to Rome from Athens, Pope Francis spoke with journalists about a number of issues, among them the Apostolic Visit, the refugee issue, fraternity with the Orthodox Church, and the resignation of Archbishop Aupetit of Paris, a victim "of gossip." Vatican Media no...

22. December 2020 - 10:51 On Friday, December 5/18, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Holy Father Savvas the Sanctified at his Holy Monastery in the Judea desert, by the bank of brook Cedron, which leads to the Dead Sea. This old and respectable Monastery was founded by Saint Savvas himself, in A.D. 500. Saint Savvas came to the Holy Land from his hometown Moutalaski of Cappadocia at the age of 18, became a novice under the obedience of Saint Euthymius the Great and his co-ascetic Saint Theoktistos, and later on founded the Lavra that bears his name. He founded the Mona...

22. December 2020 - 11:36 On Saturday, December 6/19, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Father among the Saints Nikolaos Archbishop of Myra in Lycia. On this feast the Church commemorates that Saint Nikolaos was the Archbishop of Lycia, “as a rule of faith, an icon of meekness” who “achieved the heights of humility, riches by poverty”, who helped the poor, the needy, the prisoners, the sea travellers, the orphans, and supported the doctrine of the One Essence of the Son with the Father in the 1 st Ecumenical Synod of Nice in A.D. 325. This feast was cele...