“The Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) of the Archdiocese, made up of all members of the clergy and lay parish delegates, met in Paris on 23 February, 2019, to deliberate on the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s decision to “reorganise the status of the exarchate”, published in the Communiqué of 29 November, 2018 of the Holy Synod. Since the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided to abolish the status of patriarchal exarchate, the