Thursday, May 5, 2016

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.


(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

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