July 31 Holy Synod session to be expanded
The special one-day meeting of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America, slated to convene on July 31, 2007, has been expanded into a two-day session.
The suggestion to expand the meeting was made by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, in a letter to the members of the Holy Synod 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 reads. “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.”
Members of the Holy Synod responded positively to Metropolitan Herman’s suggestion, with the two-day session now slated to end on August 1.