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by Anastasios Vavouskos (Author), Grigorios Liantas (With)
The reason for this edition of the present treatise is a ascertainment that misses from the bibliography of the Ecclesiastical Law the aggregate record and presentation of the decrees of the Holy and Sacred Synode of the Oecumenical Patriarchate about grant sovereign and autonomous regime to its ecclesiastical districts, which every time asked from the Mother Church their own administrative independence for specific reasons. These decrees- either in the form of Patriarchical and Synodical Tome or in the Patriarchical and Synodical Act- imprint the evolutionary development of the administrative unity of the Orthodox Church and give prominence to the role of the Oecumenical Patriarchate as a fiduciary of the pious observance of the sacred decrees and the regularity and unity as well as of the Orthodox Church as a whole. In each one of these decrees the reader can district with facility the following standard structure of the text, wich contains according to its order: a) the explicit declaration of the necessity of the preservation of the spiritual unity of the Orthodox Church, b) the imprint of the applied request of the claimant regime of administrative autonomy of the ecclesiastical district. c) the ascertainment that exist the included reasons in the request, which can justify the grant sovereign or autonomous regime, d) the declaration of the new regime sovereign or autonomous, having at the same time the place of the terms under which this one is granted and which observation is asserted.
