EMERGENCY MEETING OF HOLY SYNOD OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH TO TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY

www.patriarchia.ru – June 2016

On Monday, June 13, 2016, an emergency meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church will take place in Moscow.

The chairman of the Department for the Interrelations of the Church with Society and Mass Media, V. R. Legoyda clarified that a meeting of the Holy Synod will take place to discuss the extraordinary situation existing after the refusal of a number of Local Orthodox Churches to take part in the work of the Pan-Orthodox Council, planned to take place on Crete, June 18-27.