Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
Governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church
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The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian: Священный синод Русской православной церкви, romanized: Svyashchennyy sinod Russkoy pravoslavnoy tserkvi) serves by Church statute as the supreme administrative governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church in the periods between Bishops' Councils.[1]
Members
Chairman
- Kirill – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Permanent members
- by the cathedra
- Onuphrius (Berezovsky) – Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine (listed, but actually did not participate since February 2022)
- Paul (Ponomaryov) – Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna
- Barsanuphius (Sudakov) – Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga
- Benjamin (Tupieka) – Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus
- Vladimir (Cantarean) – Metropolitan of Chișinău and All Moldova
- Alexander (Mogilyov) – Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan
- Vincent (Morar) – Metropolitan of Central Asia
- ex officio
- Gregory (Petrov), Metropolitan of the Voskresensk, First Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchy and Secretary of the Synod
- Anthony (Sevryuk), мetropolitan of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate
- Niсander (Pilishin), мetropolitan of Naro-Fominsk, vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Department of the Moscow Patriarchate (since 2024)
See also
References
- ^ Устав РПЦ 2000 года