It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church similarly became independent of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church in 1994, when four bishops were consecrated by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to form the basis of a local Holy Synod of the Eritrean Church.

Upon their selection, both Patriarchs ( Ethiopian & Eritrean ) must receive the approval and communion from the Holy Synod of the Apostolic See of Alexandria before their enthronement.

The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria is headed by the Patriarch of Alexandria and the members are the Metropolitan Archbishops, Metropolitan Bishops, Diocesan Bishops, Patriarchal Exarchs, Missionary Bishops, Auxiliary Bishops, Suffragan Bishops, Assistant Bishops, Chorbishops and the Patriarchal Vicars for the Church of Alexandria.

For the list of the members of the Holy Synod and their official titles see main article The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria

* The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church

Each self-governing ( or autocephalous ) body, often but not always encompassing a nation, is shepherded by a Holy Synod whose duty, among other things, is to preserve and teach the apostolic and patristic traditions and related church practices.

With the exception of the Orthodox Church of Greece ( Holy Synod in Resistance ), they will commune the faithful from all the canonical jurisdictions and are recognized by and in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Due in part to the re-establishment of official ties between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate, the Orthodox Church of Greece ( Holy Synod in Resistance ) has broken ecclesial communion with ROCOR, but the converse has not happened.

* Orthodox Church of Greece ( Holy Synod in Resistance )

Peter abolished the patriarchate and replaced it with a collective body, the Holy Synod, led by a lay government official.

The tsar's most influential adviser was Konstantin Pobedonostsev, tutor to Alexander III and his son Nicholas, and procurator of the Holy Synod from 1880 to 1895.

Bishop Raphael was glorified by the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ) in its March 2000 session.

The Synod of Bishops is suspended when the Holy See is vacant.

In the periods between the Councils the highest administrative powers are exercised by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, which includes seven permanent members and is chaired by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Primate of the Moscow Patriarchate.

From March 1974 until his enthronement as Ecumenical Patriarch, he was a member of the Holy Synod as well as of many Synodical Committees.

* Holy Synod

At the Synod of Hippo ( 393 ), and again at the Synod of 397 at Carthage, a list of the books of Holy Scripture was drawn up, which survives to the current day as the Catholic canon ( including some books considered apocrypha by Protestants ).

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod operates two Lutheran schools in the city, Bethany Lutheran School ( Grades PK-5 ) and Holy Cross Lutheran School ( PK-8 ).

The present Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan is Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, who was enthroned on 1 November 2010, at Parumala Church by the Holy Synod.

The metropolitan is elected, when necessary, by the Holy Synod at an All-American Council ( a general council of OCA clergy and laity ).

While in Jerusalem he made a gift of a gold chalice to the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Presently the most famous Aedicule is situated inside the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

: Heschel wrote a series of articles, originally in Hebrew, on the existence of prophecy in Judaism after the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE.

Bethlehem — along with Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Sidon — was briefly ceded to the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem by a treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Ayyubid Sultan al-Kamil in 1229, in return for a ten-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders.

It mourns the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in the 6th century BC.

" in some Latin commentaries, from the Greek threnoi = Hebrew qinoth ) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on Jerusalem and the Holy Land by the Chaldeans.

Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

Coptic Icon in the Coptic Altar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

File: CopticAltar. jpg | The Coptic Altar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

File: HS IMG 0551. JPG | The Coptic Altar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem.

In 630, Emperor Heraclius marched triumphantly into Jerusalem and restored the True Cross to the rebuilt Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

" Control of Jerusalem, and thereby the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, continued to change hands several times between the Fatimids and the Seljuk Turks ( loyal to the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad ) until the arrival of the Crusaders in 1099.

Historians agree that the fate of Jerusalem and thereby the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was of concern if not the immediate goal of papal policy in 1095.

Crusader Prince Godfrey of Bouillon, who became the first crusader monarch of Jerusalem, decided not to use the title " king " during his lifetime, and declared himself Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri ( Protector ( or Defender ) of the Holy Sepulchre ).

It is also used for other ceremonies on special occasions, such as the Holy Saturday ceremony of the Holy Fire celebrated by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.

File: Jerusalem Holy Sepulchre BW 7. JPG | The Aedicule

The archaeological record indicates that the instructions reported by Akiba, for choosing a burial location, were rigidly adhered to ; almost all of the tombs from classical Jerusalem are to the east of the city, on the Mount of Olives, except for a few located over a kilometre to the west, and those in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

* The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ( article, photos & video )

* 1921 – Carlo Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

Reenacting the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem in Christianity | Jerusalem on the Via Dolorosa from the Lions ' Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.