Holy Synod to meet July 31 - August 1
A special two-day session of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America will convene at the Chancery here on Tuesday, July 31, and Wednesday, August 1, 2007.
Initially slated to be a one-day session, the meeting was extended to two days at the suggestion of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, in a letter to the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops dated July 12, 2007.
“Prior to receiving the request from His Eminence, Archbishop Job, it was my intention to convene a special session of the Holy Synod following the conclusion of the Church Court for Protopresbyter Robert S. Kondratick and after receiving the report from His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel, who served as President of the Church Court,” the letter read. “The items I envisioned for the agenda included the results of the Church Court; the current status of our Orthodox Church in America, and the 15th All-American Council, scheduled for next year.”
Stating that he had “no objection to adding other topics” to the agenda, Metropolitan Herman added that “in order to do so, we will need to meet for more than one day.”