The Statute of the Russian Orthodox Church was adopted by the Bishops’ Council in 2000. According to the resolutions of the Bishops’ Council of 2008 and 2011, a number of amendments were introduced to the text of the Statute. The Bishops’ Council of 2013 adopted the amended version of the Statute. New amendments and additions to the Statute were made at the Bishops’ Councils of 2016 and 2017.

 

• I. General provisions
• II. The Local Council
• III. The Bishops’ Council
• IV. The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
• V. Holy Synod
• VI. The Supreme Church Council
• VII. The Inter-Council Presence
• VIII. The Moscow Patriarchate and the Synodal Institutions
• IX. The Ecclesiastical Court
• X. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church
• XI. The Autonomous Churches
• XII. The Self-governing Churches
• XIII. The Exarchates
• XIV. The Metropolitan Areas
• XV. The Metropolias
• XVI. The Dioceses
• XVII. The Parishes
• XVIII. The Monasteries
• XIX. Theological institutions
• XX. The Church Institutions in the far abroad
• XXI. The property and assets
• XXII. On the pension maintenance and retirement on the grounds of age
• XXIII. On the seals and stamps
• XXIV. On the changes in the present Statute