On September 14, 2018, in the patriarchal and synodal residence of Saint Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow, Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church met in an extraordinary session. The permanent members of the Holy Synod are: Metropolitan Onufyi of Kyiv and All Ukraine; Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna; Metropolitan Vladimir of Chişinău and All Moldavia: Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, the chairman of the Metropolitan District of the