“The elders of our church are concerned with defending and supporting the family.” “What the church says is that marriage is the union of a man and a woman and that is the source of life,” he told private Skai television. Metropolitan Bishop Panteleimon, a spokesman for the Greek Church’s governing Holy Synod, said that its written objections would be sent to all members of Greece’s parliament and read out at Sunday services around the country on Feb. It echoed a decision by the church’s senior bishops in Greece on Tuesday. “Marriage is the union of man and woman under Christ … and the church does not accept the cohabitation of its members in any form other than marriage,” the Ecumenical Patriarchate said. The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, which heads Orthodox churches around the world, expressed its opposition to the same-sex marriage proposal. ![]() ![]() Greece would become the first Orthodox-majority country to legalize same-sex marriage if the law passes. Government officials said Wednesday that the draft legislation would be put to a vote by mid-February. ATHENS – Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church.
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