Kleronomia, Vol. 13, Issue B, July 1981, 557 pages.
This issue of Kleronomia includes 7 theological essays, a bibliographic bulletin and the season’s Chronicle.
His Eminence Metropolitan of Switzerland Damaskenos makes a superb description of the proceedings towards the convocation of the “Holy and Great Synod”. He studies all the elements that have been or going to be discussed and poses theological questions on whether the prepared Synod can be recognized as ecumenical, given that some theologians expressed the opinion that after the Schism and before the union, noEcumenical Synod can be convoked.
Metropolitan of Tiroloe and Serention Panteleimonas Rodopoulos, investigates the relations of Simeon, Archbishop of Thessaloniki (1416-1417), with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Gabriel Patacsi studies, in French, the views of monk Ierotheos (1263-1275) regarding the Holy Spirit. Through his work and especially the “Sermon against Latins”, the writer analyzes all the disagreements of monk Ierotheos and the Bishop Nifon and the presbyter Loukas.
Panos Theodoridis presents and comments on topographical charts of the region between Axios and Strimonas in the Paleologian period.
Finally, Vasiliki Katsarou gives us rich photographic material and analyses of old-Christian churches of basilica rhythm in Western Greece. Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi and Argyris Kountouras analytically present, based on the existing elements, the temple of Saint Andrew in Peristera village (region of Chortiatis in Thessaloniki), an old-Christian building renovated in the 9th century.
Many seasonal books are presented in the bibliographic bulletin and useful information is also given by the Chronicles on the work of the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at Chambésy in Geneva.