The Archdiocese of Athens asks its priests to avoid the excessive and unnecessary use of bells in the Temples.
The protests in many neighborhoods of Athens were intense after the common quiet hours at noon, even in the night hours some temples had it……. overdoes the bell ringing.
The intervention of the Archdiocese with its circular note as the website reveals romfea.gr,was deemed imperative.
The Archdiocese's Chancellor Maximos Papagiannis signs the Archbishop's order according to which priests are advised to avoid “the uncritical and excessive use of the codons of the Holy Temples”.
The Archdiocese suggests knocking “milder” and “sooner” and during the evening hours and the hours of common quietness not to knock at all.
The circular note of the Archdiocese follows.