Who is going to Crete? The Russians have published their list.

Some asked if the OCA would get a name in under the Russians. The answer is no, but it looks like there was a concerted effort to make a delegation populated by hierarchs from all over the globe.

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(ROC) - 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