Religion:Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

Short description: Governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church

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.

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
• Vienijamin 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, Managing Director (Chancellor) of the Moscow Patriarchy and Secretary of the Synod
• Anthony (Sevryuk) – Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate

See also

• Most Holy Synod