Meeting of the Synod of the Patriarchal Exarchate of South-East Asia
On September 2, 2020, the Synod of the Patriarchate Exarchate of South-East Asia met at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity at Ostankino, Moscow. It was chaired by Patriarchal Exarch of South-East Asia Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia.
The Synod meeting was attended by Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi and Archbishop Feofan of Korea.
The Synod expressed filial gratitude to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church for their attention to the fate of Orthodoxy in Asia, to the development of the life of church communities and to the ordering of their canonical existence expressed, among other things, in the election of the vicar of the diocese of Singapore. The archpastors welcomed the newly consecrated Bishop Pitirim of Jakarta, who took part in the Synod meeting at the invitation of the Patriarchal Exarch in advisory capacity under Article 7 of the Internal Provision for the Patriarchal Exarchate of South-East Asia.
The meeting considered a wide range of issues concerning the life of the Patriarchal Exarchate.
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