{"id":31064,"date":"2014-06-24T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31064"},"modified":"2014-06-24T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:51:45","slug":"patriarchs-gregory-and-john-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/patriarchs-gregory-and-john-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarchs Gregory and John meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Orthodox-and-Catholic-Patriarchs-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31065 alignleft\" alt=\"Orthodox and Catholic Patriarchs 2014\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Orthodox-and-Catholic-Patriarchs-2014-300x272.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Orthodox-and-Catholic-Patriarchs-2014-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Orthodox-and-Catholic-Patriarchs-2014.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The annual Synod of Bishops of the Melkite Church just finished meeting. The Melkite bishops from around the world meet together each year for some time in prayer, discussions on theology, liturgy, canonical process and the election of bishops. This year the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, John X, met with Melkite Patriarch Gregory III &#8211;a historic meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Melkites in the USA are governed by Bishop Nicholas J. Samra (of the Eparchy of Newton) and the Antiochian Orthodox Church is awaiting a new head of church since their Metropolitan Philip Saliba died not long ago. The new metropolitan is expected to be announced late next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Melkite-Synod-2014-meeting-with-Patriarch-John.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31066 aligncenter\" alt=\"Melkite Synod 2014 meeting with Patriarch John\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Melkite-Synod-2014-meeting-with-Patriarch-John-300x134.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Melkite-Synod-2014-meeting-with-Patriarch-John-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Melkite-Synod-2014-meeting-with-Patriarch-John.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Saint Peter and Paul, pray for us.<br \/>\nSaint Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Synod of Bishops of the Melkite Church just finished meeting. The Melkite bishops from around the world meet together each year for some time in prayer, discussions on theology, liturgy, canonical process and the election of bishops. This year the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, John X, met with Melkite Patriarch Gregory III &#8211;a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/patriarchs-gregory-and-john-meet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patriarchs Gregory and John meet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1712,2477,3187,2562,31903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31067,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31064\/revisions\/31067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}