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Priests are not to attend conferences with Protestants

The Holy Synod approved the recommendation of the Pastoral Care and Services Committee that priests should not go to conferences to which Protestants would be invited, except with the permission of Hi...

Requirement of priests to fast for services

A Priest may not conduct baptisms, Chrismation or give communion to the sick if he is not fasting.

Priests are not to attend Protestant conferences

The Holy Synod approved the recommendation of the Pastoral Care and Services Committee that Priests are not to go to conferences to which they have been invited by Protestants, except with permission ...

Bishops to inform priests not to attend Protestant conferences

The Holy Synod approved the recommendation of the Pastoral Care and Services Committee that bishops should inform the priests of the Synod's decision in the 1997 meeting that priests not go to confere...

Warning about Protestant conferences and Protestant servants

  1. The Bishops should inform the Priests of the Synod’s decision in the 1997 meeting that the Priests are not to go to conferences to which they have been invited by Protestants
  2. The quality of servants in...

No set ritual for installing general priest

Regarding the method of installing a general Priest in his church, His Holiness the Pope pointed out that this [matter] does not require a specific ritual and it is sufficient for His Grace the Bishop...

Pastoral care for congregants who have travelled abroad

A Priest does not have the right to travel to another country to offer pastoral care to the members of his congregation that have travelled [settled] there. It is the Bishop of the Diocese who is resp...

Priests' right to pray in the diaspora

Based on the directives of His Holiness, the Holy Synod decided the following:

  1. A priest who travels abroad for treatment, if he does not have a letter from His Holiness the Pope personally to pray in t...

The use of oils

The Holy Synod has agreed to the following recommendations and alterations [cont.]:

Third: In the Unction of the Sick and in the Crowning [Services]

  1. It is necessary for Priests to adhere to minimising t...

Judgment of priests, rejecting revolving priests, and ordaining sufficient priests

The Synod approved the requests and recommendations of the Diocesans Affairs Committee, as follows:

  1. The importance of adhering to the decision of the Holy Synod, issued on 21/06/1986, which states:
  2. a. ...