The meeting place of the Holy Synod in Peredelkino, Moscow Oblast.

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
  • Barsanophius (Sudakov) – Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga
  • Benjamin (Tupeko) – 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

See also

References

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