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 Region
Members
- Kirill - Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, chairman
Permanent members
- by the cathedra
- Onuphrius (Berezovsky) - Metropolitan Chernovtsy and Bukovina, locum tenens of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Juvenal (Poyarkov) - Metropolitan Krutitsy and Kolomna
- Vladimir (Kotliarov) - 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 (Mogilev) - Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan
- Vincent (Morar) - Metropolitan of Central Asia
- ex officio
- Barsanuphius (Sudakov) - Metropolitan Saransk and Mordovia, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate
- Hilarion (Alfeyev) - Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate