The Episcopal Synod of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki and its significance for today

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Athanasios A. Angelopoulos

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The Episcopal Synods, as an administrative instrument for a metropolitan
see, constitute a canonical institution encountered from antiquity in the Orthodox Church. After special research in the historical archives of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki, the author deals with the following aspects of the Synodical institution of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki : (1) Name, (2) Composition, (3) Convocation, (4) Duties and Responsibilities, (5) its Abolitions, (6) its Importance
and its Influence on the life ofthe Metropolis of Thessaloniki and on the whole
of Macedonia, and (7) its Significance for today on the occasion ofthe application of the Institution of the Episcopal Synod in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

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