A news article dated 24 January 2024 reporting the statement of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, issued under Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as the Greek parliament debated a bill to legalize civil same-sex marriage. Quotes the Synod stating the church does not accept for its members unions of same or opposite-sex couples and any other form of union apart from marriage between a man and a woman, reaffirming the 2016 Holy and Great Council of Crete's teaching that marriage is the union of man and woman in Christ, and reports the Synod's instruction that the church respond to members in such unions with pastoral responsibility and love in Christ.
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Citation
PublisherOrthodox Times
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://orthodoxtimes.com/ecumenical-patriarchate-we-do-not-recognize-any-other-form-of-union-apart-from-marriage-between-man-and-woman/
Source Typejournalism
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Specialist Orthodox Christian news reporting, quoting the Synod's own statement directly rather than characterizing it unattributed, paired with a second independent wire account of the same statement. NotesCited for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople's sexuality-position and its detail.
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This source names Bartholomew directly: "issued under Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as the Greek parliament debated a bill to legalize civil same-sex marriage."
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