Recent History
Lately there has been criticism of the church leadership by some of the Palestinian members (known as Arab Orthodox) who accuse the Greek-speaking and largely Greek-born leadership of squandering their money and treating their Palestinian members as second-class members.
The Palestinian members (Arab Orthodox) have expressed the desire to have local and or Palestinian leaders in positions of authority in their respective districts, in contrast to the tradition (since Ottoman times) of the higher authority positions being occupied by ethnic Greeks. The Orthodox Church is sometimes compared unfavourably in this respect to the Melkite Catholic Church, which has Arabic as its official and liturgical language.
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