Annual Meeting of the Church National Council at the Patriarchal Palace
14/2/2011
On 14 February 2011, the working session of the Church National Council was held in Conventus room of the Patriarchal Palace under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, who read the annual report of the Church National Council entitled: The Church answered the crisis through more philanthropy, concerning the activity of the Romanian Patriarchate.
The Church National Council is the central executive body of the Holy Synod and of the Church National Assembly, made up of 12 members of the Church National Assembly, one clergyman and one layman representing each metropolitan see of the country, assigned for four years time and two terms at last.
During the annual working session of the Church National Council, the entire inner and external activity of the Romanian Orthodox Church unfolded in 2010 is analysed: from pastoral-missionary, social-philanthropic point of view, monastic life, theological education, teaching religion in the public schools, cultural patrimony, organisation, administration, economy, relations with other religious cults, care for the Romanian Orthodox communities abroad, inter-church and inter-religious relations, etc.
