Permanent Members
The permanent members of the Holy Synod have been indicated since the restoration of this body at the Council in 1943.
| * | Chairman of the Holy Synod |
| * | Acting members of the Holy Synod |
| Name | Joined | department / position [1] | Dropped out | Reason for disposal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergius (Stragorodsky) | September 8, 1943 | The patriarch | May 15, 1944 | died |
| Alexy I (Simansky) | September 8, 1943 | 1943-1945 - by the election of the Council, 1945-1970 - Patriarch | April 17, 1970 | died |
| Nikolay (Yarushevich) | September 8, 1943 | 1943-1945 - by the election of the Council, 1945-1960 - Metropolitan of Krutitsky | September 19, 1960 | retired |
| Sergius (Grishin) | September 8, 1943 | by election of the Cathedral | October 14, 1943 | died |
| John (Sokolov) | January 31, 1945 | Metropolitan of Kiev | March 30, 1964 | retired |
| Grigory (Chukov) | September 7, 1945 | Metropolitan of Leningrad | November 5, 1955 | died |
| Eleutherius (Vorontsov) | November 28, 1955 | Metropolitan of Leningrad | March 27, 1959 | died |
| Pitirim (Sviridov) | April 21, 1959 | 1959-1960 - Metropolitan of Leningrad, 1960-1963 - Metropolitan Krutitsky | August 10, 1963 | died |
| Guri (Egorov) | September 19, 1960 | Metropolitan of Leningrad | November 14, 1961 | moved to the Simferopol department |
| Pimen (Ageless) | March 18, 1961 | 1961 - manager of affairs of the MP , 1961-1963 - Metropolitan of Leningrad, 1963-1971 - Metropolitan of Krutitsky, 1971-1990 - Patriarch | May 3, 1990 | died |
| Nicodemus (Rotov) | March 18, 1961 | 1961-1972 - DECR chairman 1963-1978 - Metropolitan of Leningrad | September 5, 1978 | died |
| Cyprian (Zernov) | November 14, 1961 | MP business manager | February 25, 1964 | dismissed |
| Joasaph (Lelyukhin) | March 30, 1964 | Metropolitan of Kiev | April 24, 1966 | died |
| Alexy II (Ridiger) | December 22, 1964 | 1964-1986 - manager of affairs of the MP, 1986-1990 - Metropolitan of Leningrad, 1990-2008 - Patriarch | December 5, 2008 | died |
| Filaret (Denisenko) | May 16, 1966 | Metropolitan of Kiev [2] | May 27, 1992 | dismissed from the department [3] |
| Seraphim (Nikitin) | June 25, 1971 | Metropolitan Krutitsky | June 11, 1977 | retired |
| Juvenal (Poyarkov) | May 30, 1972 | 1972-1981 - chairman of the DECR, since 1977 - Metropolitan Krutitsky | Until now | |
| Anthony (Melnikov) | September 29, 1978 | Metropolitan of Leningrad | May 29, 1986 | died |
| Filaret (Vakhromeev) | April 14, 1981 | 1981-1989 - DECR chairman 1989β2013 - Exarch of Belarus | December 25, 2013 | retired |
| Sergius (Petrov) | July 29, 1986 | MP business manager | December 30, 1987 | dismissed |
| Vladimir (Sabodan) | December 30, 1987 | 1987-1996 - manager of affairs of the MP, 1992β2014 - head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church | March 19, 2014 | replaced by Locum Tenens [4] |
| Kirill (Gundyaev) | November 14, 1989 | 1989-2009 - DECR chairman, since 2009 - Patriarch | Until now | |
| John (Snychev) | July 20, 1990 | Metropolitan of St. Petersburg | November 2, 1995 | died |
| Vladimir (Kotlyarov) | December 27, 1995 | Metropolitan of St. Petersburg | March 19, 2014 | retired |
| Sergius (Fomin) | July 17, 1996 | MP business manager | December 26, 2003 | dismissed |
| Vladimir (Kantaryan) | August 16, 2000 | Head of the Orthodox Church of Moldova | Until now | |
| Clement (Kapalin) | December 26, 2003 | MP business manager | March 31, 2009 | dismissed |
| Barsanuphius (Sudakov) | March 31, 2009 | 2009β2019 - the manager of affairs of the MP, since 2014 - Metropolitan of St. Petersburg | Until now | |
| Hilarion (Alfeev) | March 31, 2009 | DECR Chair | Until now | |
| Alexander (Mogilev) | October 5, 2011 | Head of the Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan | Until now | |
| Vincent (Morari) | October 5, 2011 | Head of the Central Asian Metropolitan District | Until now | |
| Pavel (Ponomarev) | December 25, 2013 | Exarch of Belarus | Until now | |
| Onufry (Berezovsky) | March 19, 2014 | Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church [5] | Until now | |
| Savva (Mikheev) | February 26, 2019 | MP business manager | Until now |
Temporary members
Since 1943, several diocesan bishops (from three to six in different years, from five in 2000) are called to attend the Synod, according to the list of bishops, according to the seniority of consecration , one from each group into which all dioceses are divided.
- 1997 - Archbishop of Pskov and Great Luke Eusebius; Archbishop of Almaty and Semipalatinsk Alexy; Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov Mikhey; Bishop of Samara and Syzran Sergius; Bishop of Astrakhan and Enotayevsky Jonah; Bishop Nikon of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursky;
- 1997-1998 - Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania by Chrysostom; Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust Job; Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia Vladimir; Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky Victor; Bishop Filaret of Maykop and Armavir; Bishop of Petrozavodsk and Karelian Manuel;
- 1998 - Archbishop of Kazan and Tatarstan Anastasiy; Bishop of Chimkent and Akmola Eleutherius; Bishop of Turov and Mozyr Peter; Bishop John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol; Bishop of Syktyvkar and Vorkuta Pitirim;
- 1998-1999 - Archbishop of Krasnodar and Novorossiysk Isidor; Archbishop of Saratov and Volsky Alexander; Archbishop Demetrius of Vitebsk and Orsha; Archbishop of Saransk and Mordovia Barsanuphius; Bishop Innocent of Chita and Transbaikal; Bishop of Murmansk and Monchegorsk Simon [6] ;
- 1999 - Metropolitan of Omsk and Tarsk Theodosius; Metropolitan Methodius of Voronezh and Lipetsk; Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov Simon; Archbishop of Vyatka and Sloboda Chrysanthus; Bishop of Gomel and Zhlobin Aristarch; Bishop of Tiraspol and Dubossary Justinian [7] ;
- 1999-2000 - Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsk Seraphim; Archbishop of Oryol and Livensky Paisius; Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursky Vincent; Bishop of Tomsk and Asinovsky Rostislav; Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsky Tikhon; Bishop Guria of Novogrudok and Lida [8] ;
- 2000 - Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk Panteleimon; Archbishop Eugene of Tambov and Michurinsky; Archbishop of Pinsk and Luninets Stefan; Archbishop of Petrozavodsk and Karelian Manuel; Bishop Sergius of Novosibirsk and Berdsk [9] ;
- 2000-2001 - Archbishop of Orenburg and Buzuluk Valentine; Archbishop of Ural and Guryev Anthony; Archbishop of Krasnoyarsk and Yenisei Anthony; Archbishop of Riga and All Latvia Alexander; Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich Alexander; Archbishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak Nikon [10] ;
- 2001 - Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia Vladimir; Archbishop of Novgorod and Starorussky Leo; Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Eulogius; Bishop of Astrakhan and Enotayevsky Jonah; Bishop Anthony of Barnaul and Altai [11] ;
- 2001-2002 - Archbishop of Tobolsk and Tyumen Dimitri; Bishop Gabriel of Annunciation and Tynda; Bishop Maximilian of Vologda and Velikoustyuzhsky; Bishop of Elistin and Kalmyk Zosima; Bishop of Polotsk and Gluboksky Theodosius [12] ;
- 2002 - Archbishop of Izhevsk and Udmurtia Nikolay; Archbishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsky Tikhon; Bishop Mark of Khabarovsk and Amur; Bishop of Tula and Belevsky Cyril; Bishop Alexander of Baku and the Caspian region [13] ;
- 2002-2003 - Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, Cornelius; Archbishop John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol; Archbishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk Sofroniy; Bishop Panteleimon of Maikop and Adygea; Bishop of Polotsk and Gluboksky Theodosius [14] ;
- 2003 - Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin Aristarch; Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov Paul; Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursky Vincent; Archbishop of Yakutia and Lensky German; Bishop John of Ola and Mari John [15] ;
- 2003-2004 - Eusebius Archbishop of Pskov and Great Luki; Archbishop of Simbirsk and Melekess Proclus; Bishop Artemy of Grodno and Volkovysk; Bishop Eustathius of Chita and Transbaikalia; Bishop of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz Theophanes [16] ;
- 2004 - Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia Vladimir; Archbishop of Kazan and Tatarstan Anastasiy; Archbishop of Samara and Syzran Sergius; Archbishop Demetrius of Vitebsk and Orsha; Bishop of South Sakhalin and Kuril Daniel [17] ;
- 2004-2005 - Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin German; Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky Victor; Archbishop of Saransk and Mordovia Barsanuphius; Archbishop of Chimkent and Akmola Elevfery; Bishop of Mogilev and Mstislavsky Sofroniy [18] ;
- 2005 - Metropolitan Isidore of Yekaterinodar and Kuban; Archbishop of Pinsk and Luninets Stefan; Archbishop of Murmansk and Monchegorsk Simon; Bishop Ignatius of Peter and Paul and Kamchatka; Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas George [19] ;
- 2005-2006 - Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash Barnabas, Archbishop of Petrozavodsk and Karelia Manuil, Archbishop of Vladivostok and Primorsky Benjamin, Bishop of Lipetsk and Yelets Nikon, Bishop of Edinets and Brichesky Dorimedont [20] ;
- 2006 - Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsk Filaret; Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov Cyril; Bishop of Novogrudok and Lida Guri; Bishop Maxim of Barnaul and Altai; Bishop Thebos of Tambov and Michurinsky [21] ;
- 2006-2007 - Metropolitan of Vilensky and Lithuanian Chrysostomos; Archbishop of Tula and Belevsky Alexy; Archbishop of Vologda and Velikoustyuzhsky Maximilian; Archbishop of Tomsk and Asinovsky Rostislav; Bishop Anatoliy of Cahul and Comrat [22] ;
- 2007 - Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia Alexander; Bishop Joseph of Ascension and Kinesham Joseph; Bishop of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz Theophanes; Bishop of Saratov and Volsky Longin; Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensky Zosima [23] ;
- 2007-2008 - Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda Chrysanthus; Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia Nikolai; Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk Panteleimon; Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Eulogius; Bishop John of Brest and Kobrin [24] ;
- 2008 - Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia Vladimir; Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia Alexander; Archbishop Innocent of Korsun; Archbishop John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol; Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov Cyril [25] ;
- 2008-2009 - Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk Valentine; Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich Alexander; Archbishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsky Tikhon; Bishop of Bryansk and Sevsk Theophylact; Bishop of Turov and Mozyr Stefan [26] ;
- 2009 - Metropolitan Valentine of Orenburg and Buzuluk; Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich Alexander; Archbishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsky Tikhon; Bishop of Bryansk and Sevsk Theophylact; Bishop of Turov and Mozyr Stefan [27] ;
- 2009β2010 - Metropolitan Irenaeus of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlograd; Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, Simon; Archbishop of Irkutsk and Angarsk Vadim; Archbishop of Elistin and Kalmyk Zosima; Bishop Tikhon of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk [28] ;
- 2010 - Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail Agafangel; Archbishop of Novgorod and Starorussky Leo; Archbishop of Abakan and Kyzyl Jonathan; Archbishop of Sourozh, Elisha; Bishop of Balti and Felesht Markell [29] ;
- 2010β2011 - Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimean Lazarus; Metropolitan Hilarion of East America and New York; Archbishop of Simbirsk and Melekess Proclus; Bishop of Baku and Caspian Alexander; Bishop of South Sakhalin and Kuril Daniel [30] ;
- 2011 - Metropolitan of Lugansk and Alchevsk Ioannikiy; Archbishop of Berlin and Germany Theophanes; Archbishop of Petrozavodsk and Karelian Manuel; Archbishop of Astrakhan and Enotayevsky Jonah; Archbishop of Tomsk and Asinovsky Rostislav [31] ;
- 2011β2012 - Metropolitan Onufry and Chernivtsi; Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsky Panteleimon; Metropolitan Ignatius of Khabarovsk and Amur; Archbishop of Chimkent and Taraz, Eleutherius; Bishop of Pyatigorsk and Circassian Theophylact [32] ;
- 2012 - Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn Nifont; Metropolitan of Ufa and Sterlitamak Nikon; Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky Pavel; Bishop of Maikop and Adygea Tikhon; Bishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk Aristarchus [33] ;
- 2012β2013 - Metropolitan of Omsk and Tauride Vladimir; Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhnelomovsky Veniamin; Archbishop Mark of Khust and Vinogradovsky; Archbishop of Murmansk and Monchegorsk Simon; Bishop of Tiraspol and Dubossary Savva [34] ;
- 2013 - Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk Mercury; Archbishop of Berlin-Germany and Great Britain Mark; Archbishop Demetrius of Vitebsk and Orsha; Archbishop of Rivne and Ostrog Bartholomew; Bishop of Ulan-Ude and Buryat Savvaty [35] ;
- 2013β2014 - Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets Sergius, Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk Cyril, Archbishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsky Konstantin, Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur Joseph, Bishop of Korsun Nestor [36] ;
- 2014 - Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsky Alexander, Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia Zinovy, Archbishop of Tulchinsky and Bratslavsky Jonathan, Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe Michael, Bishop of Yenisei and Norilsk Nicodemus [37] ;
- 2014β2015 - Metropolitan Theodore of Kamenetz-Podolsky and Gorodok; Metropolitan Ignatius of Vologda and Kirillovsky; Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, Simon; Bishop Nicodemus of Edinet and Briceni; Bishop of Peter and Paul and Kamchatka Artemy [38] ;
- 2015 - Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia Alexander, Metropolitan of Lugansk and Alchevsk Mitrofan, Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut Pavel, Archbishop of South Sakhalin and Kuril Tikhon, Bishop of Kasimov and Sasov Dionysius [39] ;
- 2015β2016 - Metropolitan Isidore of Smolensk and Roslavl; Archbishop Theodore of Mukachevo and Uzhgorod; Bishop of Balti and Felesht Markell; Bishop of John of Magadan and Sinegorsky; Bishop of Makhachkala and Grozny Varlaam [40] ;
- 2016 - Metropolitan Demetrius of Tobolsk and Tyumen; Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas George; Metropolitan Gorlovsky and Slavic Mitrofan; Archbishop of Montreal and Canada Gabriel; Bishop Alexander Daugavpils and Rezekne [41] ;
- 2016β2017 - Metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovinian Meletius, Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhnelomovsky Seraphim, Archbishop of Sourozh Elisey, Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoy Nikolai, Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan Pitirim [42] ;
- 2017, summer - Metropolitan of Nikolaev and Ochakov Pitirim; Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Amur Vladimir; Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyaksky Nikon; Bishop John of Caracas and South America; Bishop Jacob of Naryan-Mar and Mezensky [43] ;
- 2017β2018 - Metropolitan of Kirovograd and Novomirgorodsky Joasaph; Bishop Seraphim of Bobruisk and Bykhov; Bishop Thezan of Kyzyl and Tyvinsky; Bishop of Novorossiysk and Gelendzhiksky Theognost; Bishop Mitrofan of the North Sea and Umba [44] ;
- 2018 - Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimean Lazarus; Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky; Archbishop Matthew of Anadyr and Chukotka; Bishop Daugavpils and Rezekne Alexander; Bishop of Korsun Nestor [45] ;
- 2018β2019 - Metropolitan of Zaporizhia and Melitopol Luka; Metropolitan Sergius of Barnaul and Altai; Bishop of Rybinsk and Danilovsky Benjamin; Bishop Nakhodka and Preobrazhensky Nikolai; Bishop of Narva and Prichuda Lazarus [46] ;
- 2019, summer - Archbishop of Kaliningrad and Baltic Seraphim (Melkonyan) ; Archbishop of Yakutsk and Lensky Roman (Lukin) ; Archbishop of Vienna and Budapest Anthony (Sevryuk) ; Bishop of Turov and Mozyr Leonid (Fil) ; Bishop of Sochi and Tuapse German (Kamalov) [47] .
Notes
- β The department or position occupied by the bishop is indicated, which gives the right to permanent membership in the Synod.
- β Until 1968 - Archbishop.
- β And it is forbidden to serve as a cathedral of the Ukrainian episcopate before the decision of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- β For health reasons, he could not fulfill the duties of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in this regard, without removing Metropolitan Volodymyr from the Kiev department, the Locum Tenens was elected.
- β From March 19, 2014 as locum tenens of the Kiev department, from August 17, 2014 - Metropolitan of Kiev
- β Definitions of the Holy Synod of March 31 - April 1, 1999
- β Definitions of the Holy Synod of March 31 - April 1, 1999. Patriarchy.ru.
- β Definitions of the Holy Synod of October 5, 1999 . Russian Orthodox Church.
- β Journals of the meeting of the Holy Synod of March 7, 2000. Patriarchy.ru.
- β Journals of the meeting of the Holy Synod of October 7β9, 2000. Patriarchy.ru.
- β Journals of the meeting of the Holy Synod of April 3, 2001. Patriarchy.ru.
- β Journals of the meeting of the Holy Synod of October 6, 2001. Patriarchy.ru.
- β Magazines of meetings of the Holy Synod of March 12-13, 2002. Patriarchy.ru.
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4892958.html Journal No. 80.
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/2025397.html Journal No. 29.
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4847055.html Journal No. 62.
- β Journals No. 1β29 of the meeting of the Holy Synod of March 25, 2004. Patriarchy.ru.
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/426493.html Journal No. 74.
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1496072.html Journal No. 35.
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1498647.html Journal No. 90.
- β https://mospat.ru/archive/page/synod/2-0-0-6/256.html Journal No. 30
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/149541.html magazine No. 116
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/220819.html magazine No. 35
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/307292.html magazine No. 107
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/391776.html magazine No. 37
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/470180.html journal No. 91
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/600732.html magazine No. 32
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/703886.html magazine No. 78
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/976629.html magazine No. 143
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1230534.html Journal No. 89
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1397101.html magazine No. 9
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1586149.html magazine No. 96
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1909396.html magazine No. 177
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/2367549.html journal No. 81
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/2758598.html magazine No. 9
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3102896.html magazine No. 94
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3478892.html magazine No. 167
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3695943.html magazine No. 87
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3891448.html magazine No. 142
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4158601.html magazine No. 57
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4304773.html magazine No. 119
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4561903.html journal No. 75
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4726691.html journal No. 135
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4971905.html journal No. 72
- β http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/5090389.html journal No. 138
- β Journal of the meetings of the Holy Synod on July 14, 2018 .
- β Bishops were elected to participate in the 2019 summer session of the Holy Synod. Patriarchy.ru.