TO THE SACRED CLERGY OF OUR CHURCH In Athens June 5, 1974 Protocol Number 1191 Most Righteous and Reverend Ministers of the Most High: Grace, mercy and peace be unto you from God, and prayer and blessing from us. By means of this present Encyclical we address...
The Holy Synod of the Church of the GOC of Greece in its meeting on Feb. 3/16, 2011 approved the following Internet Code of Ethics for the Clergy: In today’s age, when information and communication technologies dominate our daily lives, the use of the Internet may...
His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Athens and First-Hierarch of the Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece was born on 8 October 1920 in Erythrai (Kriekouki) of Megara, where he grew up as a young boy. Later he lived with his parents in the town of Lavrion in the...
Ten days before his repose, His Beatitude the Archbishop asked a relative of his, Demetrios Grammatikos, to bring him by car to his village (Erythrai of Megara) as he said characteristically; “so that I can see it for the last time”. He went, and as he wandered around...
