Holy Synod meeting on Tuesday; Church-state relations on agenda

As previously reported by the Orthodoxia news agency, the Tsipras government is now examining three options.

 –         Firstly, to try and find common ground in order to continue the dialogue, and in the best-case scenario, arrive at a mutually acceptable draft bill that will be tabled in Parliament for ratification.

–         A second option is to ignore the Church and unilaterally table a draft bill in Parliament, based on the original framework, one agreed to by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Such an action, however, risks creating a major clash with the influential Church of Greece amid an election year.

–         A third option is to merely “freeze” the entire process and wait for the next Parliament, and whatever government arises from a general election.

An ecclesiastical source close to the Archbishop of Greece said the latter’s very terse statement last Wednesday, namely, that “life continues”, indicates that the dialogue and related issues have been “put on ice”.

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