Orthodox Church Of Greece
| Church of Greece ( ) | |
|---|---|
| Founder (s) | St. Paul |
| Autocephaly / Autonomy declared | 1833 |
| Autocephaly / Autonomy recognized | 1850 |
| Current primate | Hieronymus II |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
| Primary territory | Half southwestern Greece |
| Territorial extension | no |
| Rite | Byzantine |
| Language (s) liturgical (s) | Koine of the Gospels Byzantine music = |
| Calendar | Gregorian (Julian date for Easter) |
| Estimated population | 9 000 000 |
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The Orthodox Church of Greece is a canonical autocephalous jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church. The term Greek Orthodox Church is unsuitable because it can apply to three or four other autocephalous Orthodox Churches. The head of this Church is Hieronymus II of Athens , before his election, he was Metropolitan of Thebes, he now bears the title of Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. It is both the chief, responsible for the archbishopric of Athens (the archdiocese covers 18 municipalities of Attica), and the primacy assigned to preside over the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece (77 bishops).
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Organization
In Blue: autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church
Violet in "New Lands" directly under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople , which also holds:
The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos (in red) and the Church of Crete (in lilac).
The territory of this Church is known as Greece at the time of independence in 1830. The Crete , the Dodecanese and the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos are not under its jurisdiction, but within the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople , as the "New Lands" released in 1912 (the Epirus , the Macedonia , the Thracian , and the islands of Lemnos , Lesbos , Chios , Samos and Ikaria ) also dependent on the patriarchate of Constantinople, but the bishops to participate temporarily synods of the Church of Greece.
The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece is elected by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, representing the 77 bishops, metropolitans of Greece (43 of ancient Greece and 34 of the "New Lands"). If no candidate obtains more than 50% in the first round, a second round is held and the candidate receiving the most votes is elected. The Bishops (metropolitans) of Crete and the Dodecanese particepent does not the life of the Church of Greece and did not take part in this election.
The Holy Synod is the governing body of the Church of Greece. He sits next to the church taxiarch in the district of Evangelismos Hospital in Athens.
Phi Tau's sign is not for the Church of Greece. It means "Taphos", that is to say the Holy Sepulchre. It is affixed to the dependencies of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (see Organization of the Orthodox Church in Greece ).
See also
Related articles
- Organization of the Orthodox Church in Greece
- List of primates of the Greek Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Old-Calendar
- Monastic republic of Mount Athos
External Links
- (In) Official Website of the Church
- (En) Representation of the Church to the European Union
- The Orthodox Church of Greece by Sophie Stavrou, Professor of Greek at the Orthodox Theological Institute of St Sergius (Paris).
- (In) OrthodoxWiki - Church of Greece
Bibliography
- Alban Doudelet, The Greek Orthodox, Brepols (col. Son of Abraham), Turnhout , 1996 ( ISBN 2503504671 )
| Autocephalous churches | |
| Autonomous Churches | |
| Independent churches noncanonical | |
| Note | |
| See also: two councils of churches - churches of three councils - the Eastern Catholic Churches | |
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