The G.O.C. on the New Testament Holy Trinity Icon

ENCYCLICAL

To all the most pious clergy and people of our Church

 

Beloved and most dear children.

Grace and Peace from Almighty God, and from us, prayers and blessings.

The Holy Synod having convened, it decided that henceforth the sacred icon of the Holy Trinity, in which the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are depicted, may be venerated without hesitation, according to the sacred canons and sacred traditions. He who does not venerate it and causes scandals, will be subject to the appropriate canonical penalties.

For the Holy Synod

Archbishop Auxentios

 

Greek source: H Φωνή της Ορθοδοξίας [The Voice of Orthodoxy], September 1979, No. 765, p. 16.