On February 28, 2024, in the hall of the Supreme Church Council of the Cathedral Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia presided over a regular meeting of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarchy.ru reports.
The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church greeted the audience and announced the agenda of the meeting.
The agenda of the meeting includes:
report "Current problems of modern bioethics: development of biomedicine and high technologies (artificial intelligence; gene interventions; transplantology)"; rapporteur - Bishop Siluan of Peterhof, co-rapporteur - corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.B. Prokhorchuk;
report "On the Implementation of the Full Five-Year Plan of Study in Theological Seminaries"; rapporteur - Archpriest Maxim Kozlov;
consideration of the draft document "Regulations on the Council for Cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and Organizations of Higher and Secondary Professional Education in the Sphere of Spiritual and Moral Education"; speaker - Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk;
Approval of the date and theme of the International Christmas Educational Readings 2025; speaker - Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk.
The Supreme Church Council consists of:
Head of the Office Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna;
Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate;
Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate;
Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk, Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Metropolitan Theognost of Kashira, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism;
Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, Chairman of the Synodal Committee for Cooperation with the Cossacks and Chairman of the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies;
Metropolitan Mitrofan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk, Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Physical Culture and Sport;
Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, Chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture;
Metropolitan Evgeny of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursk, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechesis;
Head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archbishop Thomas of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk;
Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry Bishop of Vereisky Panteleimon;
Bishop Seraphim of Istra, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs;
Bishop Evfimy of Lukhovitsky, Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department;
Bishop Nikandr of Naro-Fominsk, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Department of the Moscow Patriarchate;
Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, Chairman of the Training Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society and the Media, V.R. Legoida;
Head of the Legal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Hegumenia Xenia (Chernega).
Invited to participate in the meeting are: Archbishop Savva of Zelenograd, Deputy Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Nikolai of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevsky, Head and Editor-in-Chief of the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Siluan of Peterhof, Chairman of the Synodal Commission on Bioethics; Archpriest Alexander Abramov, Secretary of the Synodal Commission on Bioethics; Hegumen John (Rubin), Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis; Priest Alexei Alexeev, Acting Chairman of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis; Priest Alexei Alexeev, Acting Chairman of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis.Acting Chairman of the Synodal Department for Prison Ministry; A.V. Shchipkov, First Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society and Mass Media; E.B. E.B. Prokhorchuk, Head of the Laboratories of Genomics and vertebrate epigenomics at the Federal Research Center "Fundamental Bases of Biotechnology" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Synodal Commission on Bioethics.
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