November 30, 2017 – The Blessed Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church continued its work at the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
Four plenary sessions were held on November 29. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia presented his report. Issues broached in the report were discussed. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and chairman of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission dedicated his address to the results on the study of the documents of the Council of Crete that took place on June 18-27, 2016.
Before the session His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and members of the Bishops’ Council prayed at the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The Liturgy was celebrated by Archpriest Alexander Dasayev, dean of the Resurrection district of Moscow and rector of the Church of the Resurrection in Sokolniki, and clerics of the capital city.
The fifth plenary session opened with the report of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine.