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AN END TO THE DISPUTES ON THE MONASTERY OF ESPHIGMENOU CASE
Last Thursday, March 15th, the State Council (III division Seven-member
constitution) was about to discuss the annulment application that seven people
had submitted, among them Methodios, the leader of the team which occupies the
buildings of the Monastery of Esphigmenou in Mount Athos, against the decision
of the Holy Community of Mount Athos, according to which, the new fraternity and
administration of the Monastery had been determined in 2005.
The trial, in the end, did not have to take place because the applicants
withdrew from the annulment application. This is due to their certainty that its
holding would be futile for them, that there was no possibility in winning it.
Indeed, last Monday, the Court reporter of the case, Mr. Tsimekas, had submitted
his proposal, according to which a) the appealed decision of the Holy Community
aims, among others, at the reinstatement of the smooth operation of the
administrative system of Mount Athos b) the application was unacceptable due to
lack of lawful interest, mainly in the person of Methodios, who, according to
previous decisions of the Holy Community and the State Council, he is not even a
monk of Mount Athos and he should have abandoned Mount Athos in 2003, c) all the
annulment reasons that the applicants highlighted in relation to the competence
of the Holly Community, the selection and the appointment of the persons with
whom this common organ of the monks of Mount Athos manned the Monastery, are,
either way, unfounded.
The result of this withdrawal is that pendency ceases to exist, the appointment
of the new fraternity by the Holy Community is considered legal and is, from now
on, unquestionable by anyone. This way, the pendency that had been created by
the submission of the application typically ends, and the page on the
reinstatement of the institutional operation of the Monastery of Esphigmenou and
of Mount Athos in general, closes irrevocably.
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HISTORY