His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II presided over the meeting of the General Secretariat of the Holy Synod. The meeting was held in New Jersey.
Their Eminences, members of the General Secretariat: Mor Justinus Boulos Safar , Patriarchal Vicar in Zahleh and Beqaa, Mor Dionysius Jean Kawak, Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of Eastern United States, and Mor Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, Archbishop of Mosul, Kurdistan and Environs, were present while their Eminences Mor Philoxenus Mattias Nayis, Patriarchal Vicar in Germany, and Mor Timotheos Matta Al-Khoury, Patriarchal Vicar in the Patriarchal Archdiocese of Damascus, participated by phone in the meeting.
His Holiness opened the meeting with a prayer and then he discussed with their Eminences the different matters on the agenda.
