During its July 9 meeting in Valaam, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church made the following decisions regarding the functioning of Sretensky Seminary in Moscow: « 1) To appoint Sretensky Seminary Acting Rector, Hieromonk Silhouan (Nikitin), as the rector of St. Petersburg Theological Academy, and to free him from his current duties. 2) To appoint His Beatitude Archbishop Ambrose of Vereya as the Acting Rector of Sretensky Seminary, while