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    The Most Holy Governing Synod (Russian: Святейший Правительствующий Синод, romanized: Svyateyshiy Pravitel'stvuyushchiy Sinod, pre-reform orthography:...
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    called the Holy Synod. For instance, the Holy Synod is a ruling body of the Georgian Orthodox Church. In Oriental Orthodoxy the Holy Synod is the highest...
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  • Procurator (Russia) (category Most Holy Synod)
    the validity of the acts of the Most Holy Synod (he wasn't a member of the Most Holy Synod but effectively he was the most important lay in the administration...
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  • non-clerical officer who assisted the Most Holy Synod from 1722 to 1917. The real "head" of the Synod and most important clerical figure was the Primus...
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    including the ex-Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti—was the Most Holy Synod, the civilian Over Procurator of the Holy Synod being one of the council of ministers with...
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    Theological Academy. With the support of the Ober-Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, he was transferred to the position of inspector...
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    patriarchate was abolished in 1721 by Peter the Great and replaced with the Most Holy Synod, before being restored on 10 November [O.S. 28 October] 1917, by decision...
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    The Senate and Synod Building is the former headquarters of the Governing Senate and the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Empire in the Senate Square, Central...
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    Aleksei Musin-Pushkin (category Most Holy Synod)
    Empress Catherine the Great named him Procuror (representative) for the Holy Synod; charging him with the collection of important documents and manuscripts...
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    The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian: Священный синод Русской православной церкви, romanized: Svyashchennyy sinod Russkoy pravoslavnoy...
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    religious leadership (e.g., Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' or the Most Holy Synod) that had the force of law. "Edict" and "decree" are adequate translations...
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    again resumed and completed in the next reign, of Alexander II. The Most Holy Synod entrusted the completion of the translation to four Orthodox theological...
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  • 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, commonly referred to as the Synod on Synodality, was a Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church which...
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    December 1908]) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was known for his mass confessions...
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    Session of the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East, leaving the Patriarchal See vacant. On 8 September 2021, the Holy Synod elected Mar Awa...
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    Dmitry Tolstoy (category Most Holy Synod)
    of the Navy beginning in 1853. Tolstoy was an Ober-Procurator of the Holy Synod in 1865–1880, simultaneously holding a post of the Minister of National...
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    Stefan Yavorsky (category Most Holy Synod)
    and statesman in the Russian Empire and the first president of the Most Holy Synod. Yavorsky was born in Jaworów, Ruthenian Voivodeship of Poland (now...
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    Theophan Prokopovich (category Most Holy Synod)
    of the Most Holy Synod from 1721, which replaced the office of the patriarch. Prokopovich also wrote many religious verses and some of the most enduring...
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  • of the imyaslavites were officially condemned as heretical by the Most Holy Synod, and the turmoil that arose in the Russian monasteries on Mount Athos...
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    Konstantin Pobedonostsev (category Most Holy Synod)
    politics. Between 1880 and 1905, he served as Over-Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, making him the non-clerical Russian official who supervised the Russian...
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    A synod (/ˈsɪnəd/) is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. The word...
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    to the Patriarch of Moscow. In 1721 they became subordinated to the Most Holy Synod. A list of lavras of different types. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople:...
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    by the Tsar. The Russian aristocrats and the Most Holy Synod were shocked with his behavior. The Synod decided to ban Iliodor, but Rasputin and the Tsar...
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    Nikolay Protasov (category Most Holy Synod)
    16 January 1855) was a Russian general and Ober-Procurator (Attorney-General) of the Most Holy Synod from 24 February 1836 to 16 January 1855. v t e...
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    effectively made the church a department of the government, ruled by a most holy synod composed of senior bishops and lay bureaucrats appointed by the Emperor...
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    Vladimir Nikolaevich Lvov (category Most Holy Synod)
    the State Duma of the III and IV convocations. Ober-Prosecutor of the Holy Synod (1917; in the Provisional Government). Grandson of A. N. Lvov, brother...
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    Vladimir Bogoyavlensky (category Most Holy Synod)
    Orthodox Church in 1992. He was Chairman (the leading member) of the Most Holy Synod (1912–1917). Born to a family of a clergyman in Tambov Governorate...
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    Petrograd Soviet, a Communist committee then taking over and ruling Russia's most important port city, which tentatively cooperated with the government at...
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    one of the first in the capital. In 1911 he became a member of the Most Holy Synod. On August 10, 1917 he was transferred to the see of Vladimir and Shuya...
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    Orthodox Christianity. The Shelikhov-Golikov Company appealed to the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to provide a priest for the natives...
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