Lately there has been criticism of the church leadership by Palestinian faithful, who accuse the Greek-speaking and largely Greek-born leadership of squandering their money and treating their Arabic-speaking members as second-class faithful.
Following the recent deposition of Patriarch [[Irenaios I (Skopeliti) of Jerusalem|Irenaios I]] following amidst scandals regarding the transfer of land to Jewish control, the Holy Synod of the church has named as their temporary primate His Eminence Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra, ''Locum Tenens'' of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine.
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