Word: synods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rights of their churches. In Rome, many Curial conservatives, who almost openly opposed the Holy Land trip, regard unconditional surrender by Orthodoxy as the only formula for union. Athenagoras' ecumenical outlook is profoundly deplored by a majority of the twelve bishops on Greece's Holy Synod, which seems to believe that Orthodoxy can survive only apart from Rome-long-ago sponsor of the crusaders who despoiled Constantinople's Church of the Holy Wisdom...
...world's Orthodox Christians belong. Orthodoxy in Greece has mixed feelings about the Patriarch. Rome-hating Archbishop Chrysostomos of Athens deplored Athenagoras' Holy Land visit as "hasty." But many laymen and lower clergy admire the Patriarch and condemn the in transigence of Greece's Holy Synod...
...chapter concludes: "Since the church possesses such a common heritage with the synagogue, this sacred synod wants to foster and command in every way mutual understanding and esteem toward each other . . . Moreover, just as it severely condemns injustices to men wherever they occur, so even more with maternal concern it deplores and condemns hatreds and persecutions against the Jews whether they occurred in times past or in our own times...
...seldom in action-especially when dealing with Roman Catholicism. Patriarch Alexei of Moscow sends observers to the Vatican Council, and Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, made no secret of his high regard for Pope John XXIII. But openness of this sort cuts no ice with the Holy Synod of Greece, which prefers to remember Rome as sponsor of the Crusaders who sacked Constantinople...
Rather than isolate Greece from its sis ter churches, they hope to change the mind of the Holy Synod and thus present a united Orthodox front when the day for dialogue comes around...