Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

For the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate between 1721 and 1917, see Most Holy Synod.

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, 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.

Members

• Kirill – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, chairman

Permanent members

by the cathedra

• Juvenal (Poyarkov) – Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna
• Barsanophius (Sudakov) – Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga
• Benjamin – 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

• Hilarion (Alfeyev) – Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate

Former members

by the cathedra

• Onuphrius (Berezovsky) – Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine (formerly)

See also

• Most Holy Synod