• Before the creation of the Most Holy Synod, Peter was concerned personally with improvements in the church.
  • It consisted of a college of bishops and monks under a lay procurator. Its full name was the Most Holy Directing Synod.
  • A little later, the Most Holy Synod received more extensive and significant positions and was in charge of not only church affairs, but also palace affairs...
  • In its full form MOST HOLY DIRECTING SYNOD, the name of the council by which the Church of Russia and, following its example, many other Orthodox...
  • Most Holy Directing Synod. Name of the council by which the Churches of Russia and Greece, and other Orthodox churches are governed.
  • He was the "éminence grise" of imperial politics during the reign of Alexander III of Russia, holding the position of the Ober-Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, the...
  • Holy Synod, in its full form MOST HOLY DIRECTING SYNOD, the name of the council by which the Church of Russia and, following its example, many other...
  • The jurisdiction of the Most Holy Synod extended over every kind of ecclesiastical question and over some partly secular matters.
  • The Locations of the Most Holy Synod. This section contains materials describing the buildings, which at various times the Synod headquartered in.
  • Before and after the convergence of the Holy and Great Synod there were expressed many different complaints and objections regarding whether the text...