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Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian: Священный синод Русской православной церкви, 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.

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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, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate
  • 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

    • References

    Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Wikipedia
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