Eastern Orthodox Indulgences

There have been indulgences in Eastern Orthodoxy: they've appeared before XVIth c. and were called apheseis or sygchorochartia. Patriarch of Jerusalem Dosiphey Notaras (1641-1707)wrote about them as an ancient tradition -- that patriarch give to people the chart absolving sins. This practice was approved on the Constantinopole Council of 1727. Obviously, as often. this was done to counterbalance Jesuit influence. The council in 13-th Artcicle of its Credo officialy said that sygchorochartia are what "latins" call indulgences. St. Nicodeme of Athos approved this practice. The sygchorochartia has been condemned only by Constantinopole synod of 1838 year. But Ilios has found sygchorochartia issued in 1955.

I've taken this information from the article of Russian historian Sergey Govorun, who cites Filip Ilios, Sygchorochartia // Ta Istorika, �����, �. 1 (1983), 35-84, �. 3 (1985), 3-44.