Orthodox Church from Mount Sinai

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The St. Catherine's Monastery, the heart of the Orthodox Church on Mount Sinai

The Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai ( Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai ) and the Archdiocese of Sinai is an Orthodox autocephalous or autonomous church .

She was once dependent on the Church of Jerusalem . In 1575 it gained its autonomy under the Patriarchate of Jerusalem , whose patriarch still consecrates the abbot-archbishop of the Sinai Monastery or St. Catherine Monastery (after the relics of St. Catherine of Alexandria venerated there ). According to the Ecumenical Patriarch , the Church has the unique privilege of being completely free from everyone and everyone , and is autocephalous :

“This independence is described by some Orthodox churches as 'autocephalous', by others as 'autonomous'. It is best to speak of an honorary autonomy, since this 'church' only includes around 100 souls from the St. Catherine's Monastery and small surrounding settlements as well as metochia (small monastery branches) in Cairo, Istanbul, Cyprus and Lebanon. Like his predecessors since the 18th century, the current Archbishop of Sinai, Faran and Reithun, Damianós (Samartsis, since 1973), resides mostly in Cairo. "

The current Archbishop of Sinai, Pharan and Reitho , Damian , has his seat in Cairo .

Archbishops of Sinai

literature

  • Wolfgang Hage : Oriental Christianity. In: The Religions of Mankind . Volume 29/2). Kohlhammer 2007 ( online excerpt ).
  • Reinhard Thöle, Eugen Hämmerle, Heinz Ohme and Klaus Schwarz: Approaches to Orthodoxy (= Bensheimer Hefte. ) Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht (1998) ( online excerpt ).
  • Adrian Marinescu: The Hierarchs' Catalog of Monastery St. Catherine in Mount Sinai. In: Etudes byzantines et postbyzantines. 4, 2001, pp. 267-289.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. cnewa.us ( Memento from May 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. quoted from cnewa.org
  3. ^ Hans-Dieter Döpmann : The Orthodox Churches in Past and Present : 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (2010), p. 66 ( online excerpt ). - For the number of their relatives, cf. Real Theological Encyclopedia . Mandatory continuation / Ochino - Parapsychology: Vol 25. De Gruyter (1995), p. 449 ( online excerpt )
  4. oca.org: The Church of Sinai (website of the Orthodox Church in America )
  5. Source: rulers.org (section: Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai) - cf. Wolfgang Hage, p. 424: "Archbishops of Sinai, Pharan and Raithu" ( online )
  6. Colophon Codex Vat. Syr. 647