Long-Serving Abbot Damianos Steps Down as Saint Catherine’s Monastery Prepares Vote

Archbishop Sinai, Damianos, resigned from the place of abbot - World Stock Market

His resignation from the position of the Abbot of the Sinai Monastery was officially submitted by Archbishop Damianos. In his letter, Damianos characteristically states that a 52 -year course is completed at the monastery’s rug, for the future of which he “does not hide what he is afraid of”. It is noted that on September 14 he will convene the monks at a general meeting with the sole issue of the election of a new abbot and Archbishop Sinai, Fa…

Archbishop Damianos of Sinai officially submits resignation as Abbot of St. Catherine’s Monastery | Orthodox Times (en)

Archbishop Damianos has formally submitted his resignation today, September 12, from his position as Abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai, as he had previously announced in a letter a few days ago. “I stand in spirit, kneeling and in tears before the sacred reliquary of my mother and nourisher, the Holy Great Martyr Catherine,” he wrote with emotion, recalling the moment of his monastic tonsure 64 years ago. The Archbishop made speci…

Long-serving abbot Damianos steps down as Saint Catherine’s Monastery prepares vote

Archbishop Damianos on Friday resigned from both the abbotship and the archdiocese of Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, Egypt, amid a lingering power struggle.