Friday, December 21, 2007

I spoke too soon...

Unfortunately, it looks like troubles for the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem aren't over after all. The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel's High Court of Justice has frozen the recognition of Theophilos III as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. The report gives the details and also exemplifies some of the ecclesial-political problems that plague the Orthodox Church.

The whole situation is complicated by the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, a mainly ethnic Greek order whose members exclusively choose the Patriarch for a mainly ethnic Palestinian Orthodox population.

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