Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church explained

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian: Священный синод Русской православной церкви|translit=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
• Barsanuphius (Sudakov) – Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga
• Benjamin (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, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchy and Secretary of the Synod
• Anthony (Sevryuk), мetropolitan of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate
• Niсander (Pilishin), мetropolitan of Naro-Fominsk, vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Department of the Moscow Patriarchate (since 2024)

See also

• Most Holy Synod

Notes and References

1. http://www.mospat.ru/index.php?mid=166 Устав РПЦ 2000 года