CHURCH OF GREECE NEWS
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ARCHBISHOP CHRISTODOULOS of Athens has announced that henceforth the Gospel is to be read in Modern Greek as well as in the traditional koine, which is little understood by the young and by the less well educated, so that the faithful may participate better in the Liturgy. This is seen as a pilot scheme, and other dioceses of the Church of Greece may follow suit, but when two years ago Metropolitan Apostolos of Kilkis introduced some Modern Greek into the services, he was forced to cancel this decision because of criticisms raised by some of the faithful.
The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece voted against a proposed meeting of Archbishop Christodoulos with Pope John Paul II. Of 62 Metropolitans who voted, only 15 were in favour of such a meeting, the majority feeling that the conditions for such a meeting were not favourable, although it is reported that this decision rather annoyed the Archbishop himself.
The Greek Church also considered the matter of the ordination of deaconesses. Such an order was known in the Early Church but fell into disuse. The Church of Greece decided that certain high-ranking nuns might be ordained to that order at the discretion of their Bishops.
