The coming period in Church-state relations is particularly crucial, with a second vote in Greece’s parliament coming this month over a Constitutional revision that aims to enforce the state’s neutrality to religion.
As reported on Thursday by the Orthodoxia news agency, the standing Holy Synod of the Church of Greece will again convene on March 19th, five days after the Parliament vote on constitutional revision.
In a related development, an association representing clergymen of the Church of Crete held an extraordinary session today. A unanimous decision was taken to maintain the association’s opposition, against both the prospect of constitutional revision and changes that the government wants to apply in the payroll regime for clerics in the country.