On 29th June of 1850 the Patriarchal Synod issued the Synodic Volume, through which the Greek Ecclesiastical Provinces of the Ecumenical Patriarchate were proclaimed the Self-Governed Church of Greece.

Its supreme ecclesiastical authority is the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.

President of the Holy Synod is the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.

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CONSTANTINIDIS EMMANUEL
Stages in the Historical Course of the Greek Church

CONSTANTELOS DEMETRIOS
The Formation of the Hellenic Christian Mind
The Historical Development of Greek Orthodoxy

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