Christ is Risen!
If they actually view themselves as a Deanery, then they may have more problems than a book translating the Divine Liturgy will solve.
In the Metropolia, the normal reference is to Syncellates.

What are you talking about here?

Mary

1990 and the Code of Canon of the Eastern Churches. Although the equivalent eastern term for deanery is protopresbytery not a syncellate. The difference is protopresbyteries are geographic, syncellates are for specific groups: religous, clergy, laity of a specific nationality, etc. It is one of the useless Easternizations found in the Code: Eparchy=Diocese, Vicar General=Protosyncellus, Deanery=Protopresbytery

Christ is Risen!
If they actually view themselves as a Deanery, then they may have more problems than a book translating the Divine Liturgy will solve.

In the Metropolia, the normal reference is to Syncellates.

Deacon El

Christ is Risen!
I did not mean any offense to anyone. I was somewhat surprised by the original comment.
If the manner in which I expressed my surprise offended anyone, I humbly apologise.
I will withdraw in prayer to contemplate the time of Pentecost.
Deacon El

Talk about winning one for the Gipper. The Catholic Church has (in, ahem, modest triumph) welcomed a great many distinguished Protestants into its fold in the past few years, but few of these conversions will make as loud a noise as the return of Dr. Francis Beckwith--who was, until being received into the Catholic Church several weeks ago, no less than the President of the Evangelical Theological Society. This response from his colleague in the Society, Dr. Douglas Groothius of Denver Seminary, is presently circulating:



Dear Frank:


This is a sad day for all true sons and daughters of the Protestant Reformation, for all who lived and died for its truths.


Having abandoned the distinctives of the Reformation (which are deeply rooted in Holy Scripture), you are embracing serious theological error. I wish I could say otherwise, but conscience-bound, I cannot.

By joining Rome, you are putting an institution above God; you are putting men (and I mean males) ahead of the pure gospel of Jesus Christ (See Galatians 1:6-11).

However, you are doing the right thing to resign from your position at ETS.

I have appreciated much of your writing over the years, but I lament what you have now done.

Sincerely,

Doug Groothuis

The little jab about males in the third paragraph is not unexpected from a member of the faculty at what is probably the most aggressively egalitarian of the Evangelical seminaries, a school where "students and faculty are required to use inclusive language in writing” [2006-2007 Student Handbook, p. 51]. The most arresting thing about this letter, however, is that Rome’s putatively illegitimate forward-putting of males is regarded by the writer as contrary to the gospel heritage of the Reformation.

It is one of the useless Easternizations found in the Code: