Le patriarche œcuménique Bartholomée s’envolera pour Genève dans l’après-midi du 21 juin, pour présider les travaux du mois courant du Saint-Synode du Trône œcuménique lesquels, exceptionnellement, auront lieu au Centre orthodoxe patriarcal et stavropégique à Genève, à cause des mesures restrictives appliquées aux voyages internationaux en raison de la pandémie. Les travaux du Saint-Synode commenceront le mardi 23 juin, pour se terminer probablement le vendredi 26 juin. Dans le cadre des travaux, le patriarche et les membres du Synode coopéreront, le premier jour, avec tous les métropolites du Trône en Europe, pour échanger leurs vues relativement aux nouvelles circonstances pastorales provoquées par la pandémie. Il convient de mentionner que le Saint-Synode n’a pu être convoqué aux mois d’avril et de mai en raison des restrictions. Le patriarche sera accompagné par les métropolites d’Iconium Théolepte et de Kydonia Athénagoras, membres du Saint-Synode, le secrétaire en chef et le sous-secrétaire du Saint-Synode, l’archimandrite Joachim et le diacre Grégoire, ainsi que M. Panayotis Graphiadelis secrétaire patriarcal.

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Communiqué sur la Saint Communion (https://orthodoxtimes.com/the-communique-of-the-ecumenical-patriarchate-for-the-holy-communion/):

During this meeting, the Official Letters of Their Beatitiudes the Orthodox Primates that had been received thus far in response to the letter of the Ecumenical Patriarch to them of May 17th of this year, on the issue of the mode of distribution of Holy Communion that emerged after the appearance of the coronavirus pandemic, were read and discussed. It was satisfactorily determined that their opinion coincided with that of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This consists of the following:

a) The Mystery of the Divine Eucharist is non-negotiable, because we believe that through it is transmitted to the faithful the Body and Blood of the Savior Christ “unto the remission of sins and life eternal” and it is impossible that through this Mystery of Mysteries any disease might be communicated to those who partake.  For this reason, the Church remains steadfast and immovable in its teaching towards the essence of the Mystery of Holy Communion.

b) As to the mode of distributing the ineffable Mysteries to the faithful, the Church, respecting Holy Tradition that is interwoven inextricably with the daily ecclesiastical practice and kenoitc experience, and as the guardian and vigilant watchman of those traditions handed down from the Holy Father, finds no need for a change of this mode, especially under pressure from external factors.

At the same time, the Mother Church, mindful of the special needs of Her children in the Diaspora, urges the Chief Shepherds who serve in the Diaspora that with a pastoral sensitivity, responsibility, and consciousness, to temporarily make, by economia, accommodations to problematic situations that arise from local laws of the State for the greater spiritual benefit of the Christian people, always in coordination with the Sacred Center at the Phanar.