• The participants of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Holy Synod on July 26, 1911 in the main hall of the Metropolitan Housing in Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
  • The Apostolic Governing Synod or the Most Holy Governing Synod (Russian: Святейший Правительствующий Синод)...
  • It consisted of a college of bishops and monks under a lay procurator. Its full name was the Most Holy Directing 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 Orthodox...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • highest governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church starting in 1721; abolished in 1917 when the Patriarchate was reinstated.
  • James Cracraft: The Church Reform of Peter the Great. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1971: 183, 230. ^ Adrian Fortescue: The Most Holy Synod.