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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nOn June 15, 2012, the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church met for a regular session at the Church of Christ the Saviour\u2019s Supreme Church Council Hall. It was chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.<\/p>\n
Patriarch Kirill gave an opening address. The Council considered the implementation of its previous decisions.<\/p>\n
Bishop Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomysk made a report on the ROC\u2019s cooperation with the Cossack military societies.<\/p>\n
The Council also considered a draft model statute of seminaries and proposals for items to be put on the agenda of the next session.<\/p>\n
The meeting was attended by the following members of the Supreme Church Council:<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate;<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations;<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk, chairman of the Publishing Council;<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Merkury of Rostov and Novocherkassk, chairman of the Department for Religious Education and Catechism;<\/p>\n
Archbishop Ioann of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, chairman of the Synodal Department for Mission;<\/p>\n
Archbishop Yevgeny of Vereya, chairman of the Education Committee;<\/p>\n
Archbishop Feognost, of Sergiev Posad, chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monastics;<\/p>\n
Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevk, director of the Office for Institutions Abroad;<\/p>\n
Bishop Irinarch of Krasnogorsk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Prison Service;<\/p>\n
Bishop Ignaty of Bronnitsa, chairman of the Synodal Department for Youth;<\/p>\n
Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Administrative Secretariat;<\/p>\n
Bishop Tikhon of Podolsk, chairman of the Financial and Economic Office;<\/p>\n
Bishop Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomysk, chairman of the Synodal Committee for Cooperation with the Cossacks;<\/p>\n
Bishop Panteleimon of Smolensk and Vyazma, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service;<\/p>\n
Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, chairman of the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement;<\/p>\n
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), executive secretary of the Patriarchal Council for Culture;<\/p>\n
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-Society Relations;<\/p>\n
V. Legoida, chairman of the Synodal Information Department.<\/p>\n
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