Patriarch John X Receives Cardinal Sandri Damascus: October 28, 2021.

His Beatitude’s meeting with the bishops, priests of Damascus and its countryside in the Patriarchal Headquarters in Damascus.

Given that nearly nine years have passed since the kidnapping of Metropolitan Paul Yazigi without knowing anything about his fate, the Holy Antiochian Synod that is held in Balamand, took a decision to transfer Metropolitan

The Holy Antiochian Synod, held in Balamand this evening, elected Archbishop Niphon Saykali of Shehba, a Metropolitan and a member of the Holy Synod. The Holy Synod also elected Bishop Gregorios Khoury as the Patriarchal

The meetings of the Holy Antiochian Synod are launched in Balamand, chaired by His Beatitude Patriarch John X, and attended by Their Eminences the Metropolitans, members of the Synod, after a halt of two years