The Holly Synod had a meeting today under the presidency of His Beatitude, the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Hieronymus. At 6.30 a.m. the Holly Liturgy took place at the side church of Pamegistoi Taxiarhes, the catholicon of the Petraki Monastery.
His Beatitude then addressed all the members of the Holly Synod and proceeded to the election of the new Metropolites. Very Rev. Archimandrite Theofilos Manolatos is elected to be the Metropolite of Lefkada with 49 votes. The head of Osios Loukas Monastery, Very Rev. Archimandrite Georgios Matzouranis is elected Metropolite of Thebes and Levadia while Very Rev. Archimandrite Kalinikos Demenopoulos is elected to be Metropolite of Paronaksia with 44 votes.