Upcoming Meeting of the North American Episcopal Assembly

It has been announced that the next meeting of the member hierarchs of the Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is to be held this May in Chicago, Illinois. Metropolitan John (Zizioulis) of Pergamum, who represented the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the recent inter-Orthodox meeting in Chambesy, may be in attendance to discuss the ongoing preparations for a "great and holy" council. More on the upcoming meeting of the Assembly can be found here.

New Constantinopolitan Orthodox Holy Synod

Following the recent session of its fuller Holy Synod the Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church has announced that its lesser Holy Synod now consists of Archbishops Athanasios of Chalcedon and Gregorios of Thyateira and Metropolitans Germanos of Theodoroupolis, Germanos of Tranoupolis, Ambrose of Karpathos and Kassos, Kyrillos of Imbros and Tenedos, John of Pergamum, Iakovos of the Princes' Islands, Theolyptos of Iconium, Gerasimos of San Francisco, Evgenios of Rethymno and Avlopotamos, and Ambrose of Seoul in addition, of course, to Patriarch Bartholomew (Arhontonis) of Constantinople. More here.