The Head of the Metropolitan District of Kazakhstan Participates in the Meeting of the Holy Synod

October 24, 2024. Moscow. A meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was held in the conference hall of the Patriarchal and Synodal residence at the Danilov Stavropegial Monastery under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

 

Opening the session, the Primate of the Russian Church addressed the members of the Holy Synod with an opening statement, during which he presented the agenda for the meeting.

 

The following participants took part in the meeting:

 

- Permanent members of the Holy Synod: Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and All Moldova; Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, Head of the Metropolitan District in the Republic of Kazakhstan; Metropolitan Vikentiy of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, Head of the Central Asian Metropolitan District; Metropolitan Barsanuphius of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga; Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna, Patriarchal Vicar of the Moscow Metropolia; Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus; Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Nicander of Naro-Fominsk, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Department of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate;

 

- Temporary members of the Holy Synod: Metropolitan Panteleimon of Lugansk and Alchevsk; Bishop Aristarkh of Vanino and Pereyaslavl; Bishop Philip of Karasuk and Ordynsk; Bishop Sofroniy of Gubkin and Grayvoron; Bishop Nicholas of Chernyakhovsk and Slavskoe.