DECISIONS OF THE HOLY AND SACRED SYNOD OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM

On Thursday, the 22^nd of August/4^th of September 2014, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem convened under the presidency of His Beatitude Theophilos, Patriarch of Jerusalem.

The Holy and Sacred Synod delved into various issues of the Patriarch of Jerusalem and reached the following decisions: 

1. To appoint Archimandrite Nicodemus as Abbot at the shrine of St George the Great Martyr in Lydda.
2. To appoint Archimandrite Bartholomew, Abbot at the Monastery of John the Baptist in the Old City of Jerusalem, as Assistant Dragoman and professor at the Sion Patriarchal Hieratic School.
3. To appoint Archimandrite Stephanos as Abbot at St Catherine Monastery, in the Old City of Jerusalem, and Head of the Pilgrim Service Office.
4. Appointed Hierodeacon Dionysios as Principal of the Boarding House at the Sion Patriarchal Hieratic School.
5. To welcome father Simon of Simonopetra Monastery to the ranks of the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood.
6. That Hierodeacon Martyrios be ordained as Priest.
7. That novice Antonios be tonsured as monk and join the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood.

From the Secretariat-General