Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian: Священный синод Русской православной церкви, tr. 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]
The meeting place of the Holy Synod in Peredelkino, Moscow Oblast.
Members
- Kirill – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, chairman
Permanent members
- by the cathedra
- Onuphrius (Berezovsky) – Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine
- Juvenal (Poyarkov) – Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna
- Barsanophius (Sudakov) – Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga
- Paul (Ponomaryov) – 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
- Hilarion (Alfeyev) – Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate
See also
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