In the Vespers of the Coronation of the Patriarch of Eretria on 07/05/1998

The Decree of the Holy Synod was signed with the approval of the recommendation of the Diocesans Affairs Committee to add the ...

The report of the Pastoral Care and Service Committee was read regarding the consecration of women, its rituals and the areas of their services (attached as amended in Annex no. 17-B) and the followin...

His Grace Bishop Ignatius has requested that pastoral care should be provided to Sinai with the ordination of a Bishop for it before it is lost from us: Dahab and Nuweiba, Ras Sidr, South of Sinai, To...

Further names of saints should not be added the Commemoration [of Saints] in the Liturgy other than those in the Holy Euchologion, save for the possibility of adding the saint that the church is named...

A new priest returns to his congregation, and therefore the idea of processing his wife with him in the ritual of the Welcoming a New Priest (which has been practised in some eras) is not accepted.

1. His Holiness the Pope spoke about the efforts of the Supreme Committee for Church Education in issuing unified curricula, as well as the desire of His Holiness to reopen the Institute for Pastoral Car...

Regarding the monk, Daniel El Baramousi, who was deposed [of monasticism]:

a.     The Synod meeting file contains a full report on this topic.

b.     His Holiness informed those in attendance [at the me...

With the leadership of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III and the attendance of 76 members of the Holy Synod, and His Grace Bishop Amonios;

after lengthy investigations undertaken over several days by the...

The Holy Synod has agreed to the request of the Faith, Education and Legislative Committee to form an official Committee for the Review of Religious Christian Books and to approve and register books [...

Regarding the proposed pledge that a monk should recite upon his ordination, His Holiness stated that the aim of it is the commitment of the monks to the monastic life and principles, to walk in the p...