The Ecumenical Patriarch is the only one who can convene a synod or synaxis of the Orthodox primates, and no one else,” underlined Archbishop Chrysostomos II.
Following the Doxology for the New Year, to reply a journalist’s question, the Archbishop of Cyprus revealed that he did not reply to the letter sent by Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem, who invited all the Orthodox primates to hold a synod, which would be hosted in Amman in Jordan,” in order to discuss issues related to the unity of the Orthodox world,” something which refers to the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the intense conflict of the Moscow Patriarchate against the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Archbishop Chrysostomos added, “I think that the act of Patriarch (of Jerusalem) was not serious.”
