The Head of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District is taking part in the final meeting of the Holy Synod in 2024

December 27, 2024. Moscow. The meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, the last one in the outgoing year, was held at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in the Danilov Monastery under the chairmanship of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.

Opening the meeting, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church addressed the members of the Holy Synod with a short greeting, after which the Holy Synod began its work according to the agenda.

The meeting is attended by:

Permanent members of the Holy Synod: Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and All Moldova; Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, Head of the Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan; Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, Head of the Central Asian Metropolitan District; Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga; Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna, Patriarchal Vicar of the Moscow Metropolitanate; Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus; Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Nikandr of Naro-Fominsk, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate;
temporary members of the Holy Synod: Metropolitan Panteleimon of Lugansk and Alchevsk; Bishop Aristarchus of Vanino and Pereyaslavl; Bishop Philip of Karasuk and Ordynsk; Bishop Sophrony of Gubkinsky and Graivoronsky; Bishop Nikolai of Chernyakhovsk and Slavsk.