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Minutes of the Holy Synod Session of April 16, 2016
The Holy Synod session on April 16, 2016, held a preliminary discussion on the membership of the Russian Orthodox Church’s delegation to the Pan-Orthodox Council to take place from June 18 to 27, 2016. After an additional coordination with all the members of the Holy Synod the following proceeding was approved:
Minutes No. 34
CONSIDERED:
Membership of the Russian Orthodox Church’s delegation to the Pan-Orthodox Council to take place from June 18 to 27, 2016, in Crete.
BACKGROUND:
In accordance with the decision of the Synaxis of the Primates of Orthodox Churches, which took place from March 6 to 9, 2014, in Istanbul, each autocephalous Church shall be represented at the Pan Orthodox Council by a delegation including the Primate of the Church and no more than twenty-four bishops. By the resolution of the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place on February 2-3, 2016, (Par. 3), the Holy Synod was charged with forming a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Pan-Orthodox Council.
RESOLVED:
that the following delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church be sent to the Pan-Orthodox Council to take place from June 18 to 27, 2016:
Members of the delegation:
- His Beatitude Onufry, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
- Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna
- Metropolitan Vladimir of Kishinev and All Moldavia
- Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, head of the Metropolitan Region in the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, head of the Central Asia Metropolitan Region
- Metropolitan Varsonofy of St Petersburg and Ladoga, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate
- Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch for All Belarus
- Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations
- Metropolitan Agafangel of Odessa and Izmail
- Metropolitan Alexander of Riga and All Latvia
- Metropolitan Tikhon of Novosibirsk and Berdsk
- Metropolitan Sergiy of Ternopol and Kremenets
- Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye
- Metropolitan Merkury of Rostov and Novocherkassk
- Metropolitan Mitrofan of Lugansk and Alchevsk, chairman of the Ukrainian Orthodox CHURCH department for external church relations
- Metropolitan Georgiy of Niznniy Novrogod and Arzamas
- Metropolitan Anthony of Borispol and Brovary, chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Archbishop Mark of Berlin-Germany and Great Britain
- Archbishop Innokenty of Vilna and Lithuania
- Archbishop Guriy of Novogrudok and Slonim
- Archbishop Seraphim of Sendai
- Archbishop Ioann of Magadan and Sinegorye
- Archbishop Lazar of Narva and Prichudje
- Bishop Anthony of Bogorodsk
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