The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece about the civil partnership of people of the same sex
December 9, 2015. The Standing Holy Synod expressed its position during its month regular session concerning the bill about the civil partnership for people of the same sex, as the official website of the Church of Greece reports.
The Standing Holy Synod reminds the decision of the Holy Hierarchy on 17th October 2013 and it insists on it. It ratified again this decision on 19th June 2015. According to this decision, it is mentioned that the Church of Greece cannot accept this new type of family and life as it is against the theology of marriage and family and it consists aberration from the institution of family as it has functioned during the centuries in the life of believers.
This decision is characterised from the Standing Holy Synod as stable and non-changeable. It is clarified that the positions of the Church are based to the respect of the human dignity, which is the centre of the Orthodox Theology, and to the Greek Constitution. For this reason, the Church of Greece cannot accept civil partnership, civil marriage, single parenthood or cohabitation. With civil partnership and all those new types of family, it will be a degradation of the family life.