At the next meeting of the commission of the inter-council presence, they discussed the regulations for the actions of parishes in the event of a threat to people’s livestranslated

With the blessing of Metropolitan John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, on October 6, at the residence of the Moscow metropolitans at the Church of the Prophet Elijah in the capital Cherkizovo, a regular meeting of the Commission of the Inter-Council Presence on Church Administration, Shepherding and Organization of Church Life was held. The head of the Belgorod Metropolis, Metropolitan John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol and the administrator of the Berlin-German diocese, Archbishop Tikhon of Ruza, took part in the meeting remotely.

The meeting, chaired by Metropolitan Barsanuphius of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, was also attended by Metropolitans Arseny of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, Vladimir of Donetsk and Mariupol, Deputy Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archbishop Savva of Zelenograd, bishops - Vicar of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra of Kronstadt Benjamin, Volgodonsk and Salsky Anthony, Borovichsky and Pestovsky Pachomius, rector of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Petergofsky Siluan, clergy of the St. Petersburg diocese archpriests Alexander Sorokin, Alexander Pelin, Vladimir Khulap. The issues of the modern text of the protege’s oath, the interrogation of the protege before ordination, as well as the text of the instructions for parishes under...