Chairman of the Credentials Committee announces the number of participants in the Bishops’ Council

Chairman of the Credentials Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church Bishops’ Council, Archbishop Mark of Hust and Vinogradov, announced that the checking of registration sheets showed that 198 members of the Council out of 202 bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church had registered by 2 p.m. on 25 January 2009.

Four members of the Bishops’ Council excused themselves from the meeting. Among them Metropolitan Nikodim of Kharkov and Bogodukhov, Archbishop Alipy of Chicago and Detroit, Russian Church Outside Russia, and Bishop Panteleimon of Kirovograd and Novomirgorod.

According to the rules of procedure, two thirds of the its member bishops constitute the quorum of the Bishops’ Council.

• Chairman of the Credentials Committee announces the number of participants in the Bishops’ Council
• Bishops’ Council elects Drafting, Credentials and Counting Committees
• Patriarchal Locum Tenens emphasizes the positive significance of the primatial service rendered by the late Patriarch Alexy
• Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church opened in Moscow
• Before the Bishops’ Council its participants assembled for Divine Liturgy at the Church of Christ the Savior