2016 Great Council is apparently nixed.

[Maria]

The Inter-Orthodox Council, with a token number of bishops from each of the fourteen Local Churches and supposed to take place in May 2016 to discuss administrative issues, is looking increasingly troubled. First, there is the schism between the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch. Then there were rumours after contacts with top US officials that the US State Department was trying to set the agenda, specifically regarding homosexuality. Then there was news from the Russian Orthodox Church that delegates from several Local Churches, notably the Russian, the Romanian (the second biggest) and the Georgian, had failed to agree on the contents of several points in the seemingly US-determined agenda. ...

Read the full article by Archpriest Andrew Philip at http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/88712.htm

This 2016 Synod seems to have been nixed from the beginning. With all the controversial items on the agenda, it is good that it may not take place.

[Daniel76]

The article is very good.

In addition, earlier some media (including Romfea) reported that Archbishop Ieronymos had declined to be present at the meeting, organized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in January for discussion of preparations for the above-mentioned Council.

At its meeting on December 8, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece decreed that the delegation headed by Metropolitan Elias of Karystia was to represent the archbishop at the forthcoming assembly.

[Matthew]

I think they will clear away the hurdles eventually. I wager if not for 2016, then for another date not too distant.