Filenews 30 January 2022
Twelve priests in the archdiocesan district will be placed on a three-month holiday from next Tuesday as they did not respond to the Archbishop's call to be vaccinated for the coronavirus.
Of the one hundred-twenty-three priests of the archdiocese, twenty-seven are unvaccinated. Of these, fifteen were vaccinated or obtained an exemption for medical reasons.
Archbishop Chrysostomos told cyBC that most of them are also theologians and that they lure believers not to be vaccinated.
Sending the message that it is unheard of not to obey their Archbishop, he stressed that three months outside the Church may become six, or they may even be deposed.
His Beatitude also expressed the view that there are other motives behind the attitude of some priests, taking advantage, as he said, of his poor health.
Source: CyBC
