{"id":271383,"date":"2020-02-14T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T08:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=271383"},"modified":"2020-02-14T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T08:52:41","slug":"holy-synod-meets-for-first-time-this-year-sends-delegation-to-amman-communique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/holy-synod-meets-for-first-time-this-year-sends-delegation-to-amman-communique\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Synod meets for first time this year, sends delegation to Amman: communique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held its first working session this year under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest on February 13, 2020.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During the meeting, an assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj was elected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Holy Synod <a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/holy-synod-elects-assistant-bishop-to-cluj-archdiocese\/\">elected<\/a> by secret vote the V. Rev. Archimandrite Benedict Vesa as assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The new assistant bishop will bear the title of His Grace Bishop Benedict of Bistri\u021ba. His ordination to the episcopacy will take place on Sunday, February 23, 2020, at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Cluj-Napoca.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During the meeting, the Holy Synod resolved to establish a new master\u2019s degree program entitled \u2018Economic management and administration of church units\u2019 (full-time education) at the Patriarch Justinian Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Holy Synod also discussed organizing the seventh edition of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth 2020 in Timi\u0219oara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At the same time, the following were highlighted:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The publication in the Official Journal of Romania (no. 97 of February 10, 2020) of the Statute for the organization and functioning of the Romanian Orthodox Church as <a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/holy-synod-approves-new-statutes-for-the-organization-of-the-romanian-orthodox-church\/\">approved<\/a> by the Holy Synod during its working session on December 16, 2019 (synodal decision no. 12.190 \/ 2019).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The numerous social-philanthropic activities carried out in the Romanian Patriarchate, actions amounting to 153,600,638 lei (over 32 million euros).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As regards the invitation of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem addressed to the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church to attend the fraternal meeting in Amman, Jordan, on February 25-27, 2020, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church reiterated its decision no. 3668, reviewed in its decisions no. 9156\/2018 and <a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/holy-synod-examines-ukrainian-ecclesiastical-issue-at-first-2019-working-session\/\">no. 180\/2019<\/a>, stating that the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Moscow Patriarchate resume the dialogue to reach, as soon as possible, a solution in the issue of the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, so as not to deepen the polarization of the two opposing sides: one of the Orthodox Churches in favour of Constantinople, and the other pro-Moscow Orthodox Churches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Furthermore, the Holy Synod indicated its agreement with the granting of autocephaly for the entire Orthodox Church in Ukraine (not just a part of it), but this can only be achieved by the agreement between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Moscow Patriarchate and by pan-Orthodox consensus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Since at the fraternal meeting in Amman the participants will discuss ways of reconciliation and restoring the Eucharistic communion between some sister autocephalous Orthodox Churches, and in order not to interpret the Amman meeting initiated by the Jerusalem Patriarchate as a Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod resolved that the Romanian Orthodox Church should not be represented by the Patriarch of Romania, but by a delegation of the Romanian Patriarchate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This participation of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the fraternal meeting in Amman is motivated by the fact that all the autocephalous Orthodox Churches have the responsibility to work together for the maintenance, defence and promotion of the Orthodox dogmatic, canonical and Eucharistic unity, according to the Gospel of Christ and the Sacred Canons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Press office of the Romanian Patriarchate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Translated by Basilica.ro<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Basilica.ro<\/strong><\/em><\/span> \/ Mircea Florescu<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held its first working session this year under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest on February 13, 2020. 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