The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church at its session on 10 December 2008 took decision on the dates of the Bishops' Council and the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church to elect Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
On December 6, 2008, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was opened in the Patriarchal residence in Peredelkino. The meeting was called in connection with the repose of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia. The members of the Holy Synod raised a prayer by the coffin of Patriarch Alexy for the repose of his soul, reports the communication service of the Department of Church External Relations.
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On Friday morning, December 5, 2008, His Holiness, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexei II, departed to the Lord, after governing the Russian Orthodox Church for eighteen years. The Patriarch was eighty years old when he reposed his Patriarchal residence located in the Moscow suburb of Peredelkino. In accordance with the Rule of the Russian Orthodox Church, there will be an emergency meeting of the Holy Synod of Bishops, at which a Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne will be elected. The Locum Tenens will govern the Russian Church until a new Patriarch is elected, and will head the Funeral Commission.
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Clergymen who lead their parish into schism, are “criminally playing with the salvation” of their flock, declared Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, the Father Superior of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery, in an interview with RIA News about the project “Days of Russia in Latin America.”
Victor Aksyuchits
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On 1 October 2008, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia did grant judicial rehabilitation to Emperor Nicholas II and his immediate family. This article was written before that decision. No other names, other than the Emperor and his immediate family, were mentioned in the decision.
