Requirements of Moiseeva Law (Acts). Solving a number of local councils, along with universal, became the norms of church law.

Cathedrals of antiquity are called the cities in which they took place (Laodician, Sardiykhesky, etc.). There is also division geographical position Churches whose representatives participated in the work of the Cathedral (Eastern Church, Western Church), on the names of local churches, in which cathedrals were gathered (Cathedrals of the Constantinople Church, Antioch, Roman, Carthaginskaya, etc.), by names of countries and territories, Where they were held (Spanish, Multiazia), by nation (Cathedrals of the Russian, Serbian, Romanian churches), according to the confessions (Cathedrals of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Georgian, Armenian, Lutheran Churches).

In the Russian church

Until the 20th century, the term "secular cathedral" was actively used in Russian historical literature for the designation of private (non-universal) councils of antiquity.

Although the term and used in the XIX century also for the designation of local cathedrals of the Russian Church and even in the phrase "All-Russian Local Cathedral", the broad use of the term in the current sense came at the beginning of the 20th century in connection with the preparation for the All-Russian Cathedral of the Orthodox Russian Church, which opened in August; More than half of the participants in the cathedral were laity.

Latest regulations The Russian Orthodox Church is understood by the Secure Cathedral as a meeting of the Bishopath, as well as representatives of other clerics, monastimes and the laity of the Local Russian Orthodox Church.

By definition of the All-Russian Cathedral of 1917-1918 and Cathedral 1945

1. In the Orthodox Russian Church, the highest power - legislative, administrative, judicial and controlling - belongs to a plain cathedral, periodically, in certain times convened, in the composition of the bishops, clerics and laity.<…>

In connection with the death of Patriarch Alexy II, which followed on December 5, 2008, the local council took place on January 28, 2009.

The procedure for the formation of the composition of the Local Cathedral

The on-site cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, according to the "Regulations on the composition of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church", as of December 10, 2008, includes:

1. Diocesan bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church;
2. Vicarious bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church;
3. Heads of the following synodal institutions:
   1. Management of Moscow Patriarchate;
   2. Publishing Council;
   3. Study committee;
   4. Department of catechization and religious education;
   5. The department of charity and social ministry;
   6. Missionary department;
   7. Department for interaction with armed forces and law enforcement agencies;
   8. Department of Youth Affairs;
4. Rectors of the Spiritual Academies and the Orthodox Holy Tikhon University of Humanitarian University;
5. Five delegates from the spiritual seminaries elected at the rector's meeting;
6. Governors in the Episcopian San of Men's Stavropigial Monasteries;
7. Four delegates elected at the congress of the prisons of women's Stavropigial monasteries;
8. Head of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem;
9. Members of the Commission on the preparation of the Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church.
10. Three delegates from each diocese as part of one cleric, one monastic and one layman.
11. Patriarchate parishes in Canada, in the United States, in Turkmenistan, in Italy and in the Scandinavian countries elect two delegates (cleric and layman).

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An excerpt characterizing the local cathedral

Rostov on this night was with a platoon in the flank chain, ahead of the Bagration detachment. Husar him was scattered in the chain; He himself traveled along this line of the chain, trying to overcome the dream, insurmountable to him. Nazady it was visible to be a huge space unclear our army bonfires in the fog; There was a foggy darkness ahead. How many Rostov peered into this foggy distance, he did not see anything: it was servo, then as if she was stuck something; they flashed as if lights, where the enemy should be; That he thought it was only shining in his eyes. His eyes closed, and in the imagination it was the sovereign, then Denisov, then Moscow memories, and he again hurriedly opened his eyes and closely in front of him he saw the head and ears of the horse on which he was sitting, sometimes black shapes of the hussar when he was in six steps He drove on them, but far away all the same misty darkness. "From what? It may very much, "Rostov thought," that the sovereign, having met me, will give an instruction, like any officer: says: "Go, find out what's there." A lot was told the same as it accidentally he learned as a officer and closer to himself. What, if he brought me to myself! Oh, as if I guarded him, no matter how I spoke to him, as if I expanded his deceivers, "and Rostov, in order to vividly imagine her love and loyalty to the sovereign, imagined the enemy or a deceiver of the German, whom he with pleasure Not only killed, but on the cheeks beat in the eyes of the sovereign. Suddenly, the far cry woke up Rostov. He shuddered and opened his eyes.
"Where I am? Yes, in the chain: the slogan and password - drawing, Olmyuz. Eki Ansky, that the squadron of our tomorrow will be in reserves ... - he thought. - Fit in business. This may be the only case to see the sovereign. Yes, now for a short time to shift. Combine once again and, as I will return, I will go to the general and ask him. " He recovered on the saddle and touched the horse to drive around his hussar again. It seemed to him that was light. In the left side, a bandless illuminated scat was seen and the opposite, black hill, seemed steep, like a wall. On the Bugre this was a white spot, which could not understand Rostov: Is it a glade in the forest illuminated by a month, or the remaining snow, or white houses? It seemed to him that this white stain began to move something. "There must be snow - this is a stain; Spot - Une Tache, "thought Rostov. "So not Tash ..."
"Natasha, sister, black eyes. On ... Tashka (I will be surprised when I tell her how I saw the sovereign!) Nataski ... Tashka take ... "-" Again, your wellness, and then the bushes ", said Gusar's voice, which, falling asleep, went to Rostov. Rostov raised his head that had already sank to the horses' mane, and stopped near Gusar. Young children's sleep insurposedly clone him. "Yes, mean, what did I think? - not forget. How will I speak with the state truck? No, not that is tomorrow. Yes Yes! On Tashka, come ... to fade us - who? Gusarov. And the hussars in the mustache ... By Tverskaya, this hussar was driving with a mustache, I also thought about him, against the Gurya himself at home ... Old Man Guriev ... Eh, nice little Denisov! Yes, all this is nothing. The main thing now is the sovereign here. As he looked at me, and I wanted to say something to him, but he did not bother ... No, I did not bother. Yes, it is nothing, and most importantly - do not forget that I needed it, yes. On - Tashka, we - to eat, yes, yes, yes. It's good". - And he fell his head again on the neck of the horse. Suddenly it seemed to him that he was shooting. "What? What? What! ... Ruby! What? ... "spoke, waking, Rostov. As a moment, as he opened his eyes, Rostov heard in front of him where the enemy was, pulling thousands of votes. His horses and hussar standing beside him, alerted ears on these screams. On the place from which the screams were heard, one light was heard, then one light, then the other, and on the entire line of the French troops on the mountain lights lit up, and the cries were even more and more incent. Rostov heard the sounds of French words, but could not disassemble them. Too much buzzing votes. Only heard was: AAAA! and rrrr!
- What is it? What do you think? - Rostov turned to Hussar, standing beside him. - After all, this is an enemy?
Gusar did not answer anything.
- Well, don't you hear you? - Pretty waiting for a response, asked Rostov again.
"And who knows, your wellness," Gusar responded reluctantly.
- In place should be an enemy? - again repeated Rostov.
"It can, and maybe, and so," Gusar said, "the thing is night. Well! Shawn! He shouted on his horse, who worked under him.
Rostov's horse was in a hurry, beat his leg on the frozen land, listening to the sounds and looking at the lights. All the shouts of the votes were intensified and intensified and merged into the overall hum, which could only produce a few thousandth army. The lights more and more applied, probably along the line of the French camp. Rostov no longer wanted to sleep. Merry, triumphant cries in the enemy army influenced it: Vive L "Empereur, L" Empereur! [Long live the emperor, the emperor!] Already clearly heard Rostov now.
- And not far, - must be for a stream? - he said to Husaru standing near him.
Gusar only sighed, not answering anything, and hesitated angrily. According to Gusar, he was heard by the trample horse-in horse, and from the night mist suddenly grew, imagining a huge elephant, the figure of the Hussar Unter of the officer.
- Your wellness, generals! - Unter said Officer, approaching Rostov.
Rostov, continuing to look back on the lights and screams, went with Unter in an officer to meet several righteous to the line. One was on a white horse. Prince Bagration with Prince Dolgorukov and Adjutants left to look at the strange phenomenon of lights and screams in the enemy army. Rostov, running up to Bagration, reported to him and joined the adjutants, listening to what the generals said.
"Believe me," the prince of Dolgorukov said, turning to Bagration, "that this is nothing more as a cunning: he retreated in an airsharder ordered to light the lights and noise to deceive us.
"Hardly," said Bagration, "I saw them from the evening on Tom Bugre; If you left, so and from there. Officer, - Prince of Bagration to Rostov turned to Rostov, - are there still his flanks there?
- From the evening they stood, and now I can not know your shiny. Order, I will go with the hussar, - said Rostov.
Bagration stopped and, without answering, in the fog tried to see the face of Rostov.
"And what, look," he said, having silent a little.
- Listen to.
Rostov gave the spurs of a horse, called Unter Officer Fedchenka and two more hussar, ordered them to go for himself and drove drove under the mountain towards the continued cries. Rostov and terribly and fun to go to one with three hussars there, in this mysterious and dangerous misty distance, where no one was before him. Bagration shouted to him from the mountain so that he did not go further the stream, but Rostov did the view, as if he did not hear his words, and, without stopping, drove further and further, constantly cheating, taking bushes for trees and rods for people and constantly explaining their Deceptions. Going down a trot under the mountain, he no longer saw our nor enemy lights, but louder, I heard more clearly cries of the French. In the hollow, he saw something like a river, but when he reached her, he recognized the passing road. Leaving on the road, he helped the horse in indecision: go through it, or cross her and go through the black field to the mountain. Riding on the light in the fog road was safer, because rather it was possible to consider people. "I went after me," he said, crossed the road and began to raise a gallop to the mountain, to the place where the French picket standing in the evening.
- Your Honor, so he! - Speak from behind one of the hussar.
And he still did not have time to see something, suddenly stolen in the fog, as the light flashed, clicked the shot, and the bullet, as if comparing for something, he knocked high in the fog and flew out of hearing. Another shotgun did not shoot, but flashed the light on the shelf. Rostov turned the horse and gallop went back. Four shots rang out in different intervals, and the bullets saved different tones somewhere in the fog. Rostov held a horse, who had joyed just like he, from shots, and went step. "Well, even, well, even!" Speaking in his soul, some fun voice. But no longer shots.

According to the Charter of the Russian Church, a plastering consumer belongs to the highest authority in the field of the creed and canonical dispensation of the church. The literary cathedral consists of bishops, representatives of the Cleary, monastic and laity, in the amount and order determined by the Bishops Cathedral.

The Local Cathedral, in particular, approves the rulings of the Bishop Cathedral, relating to the creed and canonical device, canonize the saints, elects the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and establishes the procedure for such election, determines and corrects the principles of relations between the church and the state, expresses the concerns about the problems of modernity .

The local cathedral as a canonical term denotes the cathedral of the local church (it means its opposition to the Universal Cathedral). However, the perception of the local cathedral as a wide composition cathedral, which includes not only bishops, as in the case of the Bishops' Cathedral, but also a clearing and laity.

Based on this, more common, value, it can be said that there were only five local councils in the history of the Russian church, and they all took place in the XX century: in 1917-1918, 1945, 1971, 1988 and 1990. All the cathedrals (with the exception of the bishops of the Councils), which were held before, were more a prototype of these local councils.

At the same time, it is important to keep in mind that there was no uniform model of the participation of clerics and laity in the lowest colors of the 20th century.

Cathedrals in Russia convened, starting with the Baptism of Russia in 988. However, almost nothing is known about the cathedrals of the Kiev period of historical science. More detailed information begin to arrive, starting from the period of the Tatar-Mongolian IGA and Moscow Rus.

Elections on the so-called. Local cathedrals that are held in the 20th century have not been done before. There was a tradition (tough regulation was not) to invite to the cathedral of prominent Moscow priests (they usually represented them with the reers of the Kremlin Cathedrals and Churches), rebels of major monasteries Vladimir, Suzdal, Novgorod and other cities. In addition, there was a king with his retinue. The signatures of the Acts of the Cathedralians were usually put on only the bishops, which gave them the quality rather than the bishops of the Councils. The great princes and the kings themselves indicated the subjects of the Cathedral reasoning, they often published the Cathedral decrees from their own person.

The most famous cathedrals to the Synodal Period (1721-1917: At this time, the cathedrals were not held, and the church was controlled by the Synod)

Vladimir Cathedral of 1274:

Accepted the "feed book" of Saint Savva Serbsky, who was important for church law, forbade ordination of persons who did not reach the canonical age, and the Khopov;

Condemned the clergy for deviations from the church charter when performing the Eucharist and Baptism, drunkenness, pagan rites and spectacles, underencing games on the eve of holidays, folk battles that did not seem without the death of participants;

Condemned the custom of led brides to the water, forbade depicting crosses on Earth and on ice.

Cathedral of 1503:

Ordered to leave the so-called. "Double monasteries", in which monks and nuns lived at the same time;

Forbade widowing clergy representatives to commit worship, if they do not accept the victor.

The stalloral cathedral of 1551:

Missed the prosecution from 100 chapters in which all the rules of the Russian Church operating at that time were collected and systematized ("Feeding", "Charter of St. Vladimir", Resolutions of the Cathedral of 1503, Messages of Metropolitans).

Resolutions of the desires concerned the bishop duties, the church court, the disciplines of the clergy, monks and laity, worship, monastic victches, folk education and care for the beggars. Decisions of the stamp about the bobbers, about the "soup of alliluia" were subsequently a banner for the Old Believers.

Banned secular courts to judge spiritual persons;

Offered to the bishops and urban clergy to arrange schools for the preparation of gender;

Mirians were given the opportunity to choose the candidates of the priesthood;

Condisted common in the national life of the desire and remnants of paganism, litigation, bumps, gambling, gambling, drunkenness.

Cathedral of 1590 (passed after the establishment of the Patriarchate in Moscow in 1589):

Missed the act with the diploma of Constantinople Patriarch Jeremiah II on the election of the Patriarch Iova and the Patriarch title of his successors.

Large Moscow Cathedral of 1667:

It was convened for a court over the patriarch Nikon. Eastern Patriarchs participated in the acts of the cathedral: Alexandria and Antioch.

Decided to deprive the patriarch of Nikon Sana and send it to Belozer's monasteries;

Condemned the Old Believers;

Reduced the Resolution of the Filaret Cathedral of 1621 on the intersection of Western Christians and the prohibition of the priesthood of wetting priests and deacons;

Banned handicrafts

Commanded the priests to teach their children a diploma;

Decided to deprive the clergy for the second marriage of the clergy, but allowed them to sing on a closet or join the Sovereign Service except military;

Banned the laity to judge clerics for church crimes;

Forbidden to take the same one of the spouses without the consent of the other, as well as to demand from the raised contributions to the monastery;

He ruled the Metropolitans to wear white hoods, and the Diakons and Priests - Skuchew;

I developed a norm of the relationship between church and state power, according to which the king had an advantage in the affairs of political, and the Patriarch was in church.

Moscow Cathedral of 1675:

Established provisions on the benefits and differences of the patriarch, Metropolitan, Archbishop, Bishop and other hierarchical persons;

Decided to cook the world for all Russia only in Moscow;

He forbade priests to give their places in the dowry daughters so that these places go to the chance.

Local cathedrals (XX century)

All-Russian Church Cathedral of 1917-1918 (opened on August 15, 1917 in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin)

Passed with a wide representation of the laity. Representatives of various layers participated - from the graph to the master of the woven shoes and aircraft, officers, prominent thinkers: the famous orientalist Boris Turaev, Academician Nikolai Nikolsky, Sergey Bulgakov, Evgeny Trubetskaya.

Restored the patriarchy;

I chose the Patriarch by the lot from the three candidates of Tikhon (Bellavina);

Published the definition of the order of election, rights and obligations of the Patriarch, about the Sacred Synod and the Supreme Church Council, about the Location of the Patriarchal Throne, about the diocesan management, the parishes, monasteries and monasticists, about the legal status of the Church in the state, attracting women to participate in different fields of church ministry .

SECOND CATOR 1945:

Adopted the provision on the management of the Russian Church;

1971 Secure Cathedral:

He canceled the oath (legend of the curse - "IF") of the Big Moscow Cathedral of 1667 on the Old Believers, recognized the old Russian rites "Saving, like new rites, and even-ways."

The 1988 Secure Cathedral (the year of the Millennium of the Baptism of Russia):

He glorified in the face of Saints Dimitri Donskoy, Andrei Rublev, Maxim Grek, St. Makariya Makarius, Ignatius Bryanchaninov and Feofan Navashnik, Rev. Pairiya Velichkovsky and Ambrose Optina;

Missed the charter about the management of the Russian Church.

Local Cathedral of 1990:

317 delegates participated in the cathedral: 90 bishops, 92 cleric, 88 laity. He was preceded by a bishop cathedral who chose three candidates for the patriarchy throne.

Elected Patriarch Alexy II;

Canonized the righteous John Kronstadt;

He decided to conduct cathedrals with the participation of clerics and laity every five years (though, this decision was canceled at the 2000 Bishop Cathedral).

Prepared Interfax-Religion Observer Alexey Neighborhood

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According to the rules of the ancient Church (apost. 37, I broke. Sob. 5), the bishops of each metropolis were to meet twice for discussion and solve the current affairs of administrative and judicial, exceeding the powers of a separate bishop. In addition, the bishops of one or more metropolis were gathered deliberately to address the inadequate issues of church practice arising from the special circumstances of the place and time. Resolutions of some of these last cathedrals entered the rules of the ancient Ecumenical Church. According to its property, the rules of local councils are committed actually for the local church, the bishops of which they decided. But - in view of the unity of the main principles of the church device and management - the rulings of one local church could be accepted and really were taken to leadership and in other local churches, on their free consent of the last. During the Ecumenical Councils, the rules of local councils were approved to the universal management of the decrees of these cathedrals. The example of this we see in the rules of the Fourth Ecumenical Cathedral (Ave. 1), in the Rules of Trill (Ave. 2) and the Seventh (Ave. 1) of the Universal Councils. After approval by the Universal Councils, the rules of local councils received a value equal to the rules of the Ecumenical Councils.

Of the local councils whose rules are made to the church rules, the first was the Cathedral:

1) Ankirskywho took place in Ankire, the main city of Galatia, in 314, chaired by Vitaly, Bishop of Antioch. He was convened after the end of the cruel persecution of Christians at Maximina about the renunciation of many of Christians from faith in Christ during persecution. The cathedral meant to establish order, which fallen during the persecution could be accepted again to communicate with the church in the event of their repentance. This subject is devoted to the first half of the rules (only 25); The second half also sets out the rules on the imposition of the pepitimia for different moral sins. From the Rules not an epitimino nature, the rule of the 13th, prohibiting Hepping to supply presbyters and deacons without orders from the bishop of the city.

2) Neokeziress Cathedral 315 G. amounted to 15 rules that concern the moral life of the clearing and the people. In the first rather, the rules are remarkable: the 1st, prohibiting the presbyte and the deacon to marry after the initiation under the concerning the eruption of the San; 9th, prohibiting the presbyer priesthood, if he sinned the body to a dedication to San and repeated himself in his sin; And the 8th, the oversight access to the sacred sanator to the one who has a wife, fried in adultery. At the second relationship draws attention: the 2nd rule, which exposes to the very death of his wife, who, widowed after marriage, will come out for the second time for his first husband's brother, and the 7th rule prohibiting the presbyter to participate in the marriage So that this participation does not submit an occasion to think that he approves such marriages.

3) Gangrs Cathedral It was about 340 in Metropolis of Paflagonian (in Malaya Asia). The subject of the arguments of this cathedral was the false coating of Eustafia, the bishop of Sevastia (in Armenia), and sects called him name. Eustafian taught that the marriage life is unwhatever God, and therefore many of them have dissolved their marriages, and also hurried married presbyters and did not want to receive Eucharist from them; did not visit the public liturgical assemblies, and converged for prayer in private houses; Fixed on the days of Sundays, the days set by the church for the post were not observed; Of the false ascetic motivations replaced the usual dress by monastic clothing; Women under the pretext of piety halted their hair and wore male clothes; They taught that rich can not have hopes for salvation, if they do not distribute all their property, and so on. Against these false ascetic and antisocial opinions and aims of the Council of the Cathedral of the Gangrsky, which is 21. In the Slavic "Ferry" of the 19 rules, since the last 21 rule was omitted and 10 more the rule about the exaltation of the norning gentlemen for the sake of the living in marriage.

4) Antiochian Cathedral It was convened in 341 on the occasion of the consecration of the temple laid down by the will of Emperor Konstantin, but the presented during the son of his constant. The bishops (about 100), who gathered for this celebration, at the end of it made up a cathedral on which 25 rules for church management were made, and these rules concern the very important parties to church governance, such as: decisions of bishops and other clerics, relations of bishops to each other Both the regional metropolitan, annual cathedrals, the order of the court on clerics and bishops on church and housing, the management of church property, etc. All these rules constitute the repetition and development of such rules placed in the collection of the Rules of Apostolic, and partly in the rules of the Nicene Cathedral. Only the 11th and 12th rules constitute a correspondence of the Cathedral, which does not have the foundations in the Apostolic Rules; They are talking about the attitude of the bishops to the king. It is, it is prohibited to be forbidden to CLIRICS, held by their bishop, as well as bishops, erupted on the local council, contact the church court to the king, and inspires the courts from church judges in the second instance, under the fear of imprisonment of any hope for an excuse for non-performance of this regulations. Prohibited both bishops and clerics "to join the hearing" of the king; If there will be any serious need for this, then anyone departing to the king is obliged to collapse about this consent to the local bishop or metropolitan and receive from one or another to a preliminary diploma.

5) Laodician Cathedral Was in Frigia - as believed - at the end of the fourth century, shortly before the Second Universal Cathedral. Its rules, in number 60, relate to various details of the liturgical rank, the disciplines of the Clear, the Life of the Mijan, Marriage, the relationship of Orthodox to heretics and represent a lot of characteristic instructions on the church ritual and the customs of the life of the then Christians. As on the more important rules of this cathedral, it is possible to indicate the following: 57th rule - does not apply in small cities and sets to supply bishops, but periods, but not yet to do nothing without the will of the bishop of the city; 13th Ave. The fact that unable to assess the people to choose having to make a priesthood; The 19th rule, in which, by the way, suggests that one only to sacred persons to enter the altar and coming there; 52th - that it is impossible to make marriages in the Holy Quantity or celebrate birthdays; 10th and 31st - about the prevailing of marriages between Orthodox and heretics; The 1st pr. - that the lawful order that joined the second marriage can be in condescension to take into church communication after a short pepitimia, consisting in prayer and post.

6) Sardiy Cathedral It was convened in 344 in Sardika (in Illyria, at the border of the Eastern and Western Roman Empire) at the insistence of the West Emperor, Constance, from the Bishops of the Eastern and Western. The purpose of the convening of the cathedral was the desire to put an end to the separation between Western bishops who defended St. Athanasius, Archbishop Alexandria, and Orthodox faith, and between the strong Arian bishop party in the East. This goal was not achieved. Eastern bishops, most of which kept the heresy of Aria and pursued St. Athanasius, defender of Orthodoxy, learning about his arrival at the Cathedral and the intention of Western bishops to support him together with Orthodoxy, left the sordik and in Philipopol (in Frakia) made up their cathedral on which the Saint Athanasius and Pope Julia. The remaining, Western bishops and few of the eastern Orthodox discovered the Cathedral in Sardic, at which the Nike symbol of faith was recognized, justified St. Athanasius and above that the 20 Rules were considered to be 20 rules, because 18 and 19 rules are connected to one ). Of these rules, the most important those relating to the instances of the Church Court and interchanges of the bishops with the king. On the first question, the Sardiy Cathedral admits two trial instances above the bishop. First of all, the complaint of clearing or bishop on the bishop is considered at the bishop of the local province. If a convicted bishop remains dissatisfied with the verdict of the court and wishes his case to be considered by the new composition of judges, then this appeal is brought to the attention of the Bishop of Roman, and if he finds the basis of respecting the appeal, then entrust the consideration of the case by the bishops of the neighboring province or may be sent to the place His trusted presbyters for the production of court along with the bishops of the province (3, 4, 5). On the second point, the Sardiy Cathedral condemns a very common custom of the bishops to resort to the yard with a petition for providing his friends worldly posts and advantages, finding such a custom to the seal and harmful to the Church. Cathedral finds decent for bishops to provide assistance to siema, widows, poor, tolerance and injustice; The cathedral obliges the bishops to apply for criminals convicted of imprisonment, reference and so on - to facilitate the imposed punishment if they turn to the church asking for help. But the bishops should bring failures of petitions not personally, but through their deacons, with the knowledge and permission of Metropolitan and with the assistance of the bishop of the city, where is in famous time yard. If the petition was brought to the king in Rome, then it should be represented by the Roman bishop to preview and already be transmitted to the yard, with the contribution and his own replying, in case of the relevance and importance of the petition (Ave. 7-9, 20). From other rules you need to pay attention to the Ave. 6th, prohibiting to supply the bishop to any village or a small town, for whom Pretty and Presbyter, "Does not humiliate the name of the bishop and power. Some degrees, the age of the number of people, can be found to have a bishop worthy to have a bishop. " It is also important to rule the 11th, prohibiting the bishop to leave its flock without need for a while more than three weeks. Attention is drawn to another rule 10: "It is applied to observe, and a rich or scientist, from secular lives, honor the Bishop of life, not before, is not coming, unless the reader and the Diacon, and Prester, will be performed. Obviously, for each degree of rank, not too little time must be given, in the continuation of which they could see the life of its faith, admonition, constancy and meekness. Indecently daring and lightly supply hasty bishop, or presbyter, or a diacon; Neither knowledge nor the behavior gives the right. "

7) Canons Carthage Cathedraladopted in the collection of rules with the name of the Carthaginsky Cathedral make up a set of rules operating in African church edited at the Carthaginsky Cathedral of 419 years. It contains the rules of the African catches of the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. The main components of it are the rules of cathedrals who were under the Carthaginian Archbishop of Away and under his chairmanship, namely: The Cathedral of the Cathedral of 393, Carthaginsky on August 28, 397, Carthaginsky on September 16 or 17, 401, Carthaginsky 13 Saint. 401, Milevitsky 27 Aug. 402, Carthaginsky 25 Aug. 403, Carthaginsky in June 404; Carthaginsky 23 Aug. 405, Carthaginsky on July 13, 407, Carthaginsky on July 14, 409 and 410, May 1, 418 and 419. To these cathedrals, in Azerlia, you need to add two cathedrals, former under its predecessors - grate in 345-348. And under the generaphy of 390 years. In particular, the sources of the Carthage Cathedral of the Cathedral of the Cathedral of 419. It is necessary to submit in the following form: the rule of 1 arch (according to our "Book of Rules") belongs to the Cathedral of 419, the first meeting, on May 25; Rules 2-4 - Carthage Cathedral in Generaphy in 390, Rule 5 - Carthaginsky Cathedral at Grate in 345-348; Ave. 6-13 - carf. with genes 390; Ave. 14-33 - Ippon Cathedral 393; Ave. 34-36 - carf. 13 Saint. 401; Ave. 37 - carf. May 1,418; Ave. 38-42 - carf. 419, the first meeting on May 25; Ave. 43 - carf. 28 Aug. 397; Ave. 44-57 - Popovsky, 393; Ave. 58-67 - carf. 28 Aug. 397; PR. 68-76 - carf. 16 or 17 July 401; Ave. 77-96 - Carf. 13 Saint. 401; Ave. 97-101 - Milevitsky 27 Aug. 402 g.; Ave. 102-103 - Carf. 25 Aug. 403 g.; PR. 104 - carf. in June 404; PR. 105 - carf. 23 Aug. 405 g.; Ave. 106-120 - Carf. June 13, 407; Ave. 121 - carf. July 14, 409; Ave. 122 - Carf. In June 410, Ave. 123-141 - Carf. May 1, 418, Ave. 142-147 - Carf. 419, the second meeting, May 30. In the meeting, Dionysius is small for the last, 133rd (on his publication), the Carthage Cathedral was posted a concluding speech of Averelius and signatures of him and other bishops present with him in the last meeting. Further, Dionysius with the continuing canons' account (134-138) placed: the message of African bishops to Pope Bonifation, the messages of Cyril Alexandria and Attica Constantinople to African bishops and the Symbol of Faith. These documents are not in the "Book of Rule"; It contains only, beyond the account of the rules, as an application, the message of the African Cathedral to Pope Celegen in the case of the Apiary, which is a message in Dionysia placed in the form of the last 138th rule. This message belongs to one of the subsequent Carthage Cathedrals, "believes the Cathedral of 525.

In the Greek meetings of the Rules of the Carthage Cathedral, these rules are almost in each of them have their own special order, division and account. While one of these assemblies hold the account Dionysius small or at least approaching it, others significantly expand their account; Some and against the extended account increase the number of these canons. This is a variety of it comes from the fact that some rules in meetings with an extended account are divided into two, three or more. Publishers "Syntagma" rally and sweating (Rally and Pottle), following the trapezant list, held the account that coincides with the account of Dionysius in the number of rules, but not everywhere equally with the latest partitioning rules. As a feature of the outlining of the Carthaginian rules in the "syntagma" of the rally, it should be indicated that the collection is divided into several acts, which is not in the meeting of Dionysia Small, nor in the publication of Justlely ("Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae"). The first act, reasoning about the Nicean canons, formerly on the Cathedral of 419, and the first 33 rules on the presentation of the Dionysius of Small. The second act hugs the rules 34-56, the third - 57-65 rules, the fourth - 66-85 pr., Fifth - 86-93 pr., Sixth - 94-133. After 133, the rules are placed the same documents as the donishia is small, only outside the account of the rules. PDALION publishers, following manuscripts and their own reasons, divided Carthage canons on 141, while maintaining them for references and an ancient account of them in relation to the interpretations of the zonars and Walsamon. At the same time, they lowered all the prefaces to the cathedrals and the inscriptions of the cathedrals, which included in the Carthaginian rules of 419, discarded the table of contents to the canons, combined the rules uniform in content, and shared the rules interpreting about various subjects, the arguments of the fathers paid the rules. As a result of such ungrateful work, a trail was trail. Features of the publication of Pidalion: Some rules contained in other publications turned out to be omitted in Pidalion, it was 14, 43, 81, 99, 103, 120, 143 according to the "Book of Rules"; Others are divided into two, for three rules, for example, out of 104 rules are cut in Pidalion 100, 101 and 102 rules; The other, on the contrary, are connected to one rule, for example, 131-132 are connected in 128 rule. The separation of the Carthaginian rules in Pidalion is approached in some cases and division into the "Book of Rules". In total, it is closer to the Latin statement of the Rules of the Carthaginian Cathedral of 419, made by Dionisia Small, the Greek translation of them, printed by Justlely under the title "Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae" in his publishing house "Bibliotheca Juris Canonici". This translation is borrowed by Justleli from the Greek meeting of the rules published by Tilia. ( T. V. Bars, prof. On the rules of the Carthaginsky Cathedral // Christian reading. - Part 1. - 1879. - P. 215-223).

For more convenient use of different publications of the Carthage Cathedral Rules of the Cathedral of 419. We are making a comparative table of presentation and their accounts in different publications, indicating also cathedrals, the rules of which included in the Carthaginian Cathedral of 419.

The Canons of the Carthage Cathedral were adopted in the "Syntagma of XIV titles" with the agreement that they contain many standards that make up the peculiarity of the local church discipline. This is not difficult to make sure if you pay attention to the content of the Carthage Cathedral rules. The most important decisions of the Councils of the African Church relate to the following items:

a) they are found a lot of resolutions about time-based cathedrals. In Africa, as in other places, there were two kinds of cathedrals: - the bishop cathedral of one famous province under the chairmanship of Primas ( episcop.uS Primae Saedis ) or Metropolitan and bishop cathedral from all African provinces in the main city of North Africa - Carthage chaired by her bishop, which was called full, or general, the Cathedral of the African Church. The peculiarity of the African Church's management was that it was not only provincial, but the general cathedrals were convened annually, and in order not to bother all the bishops, it was decided that every church province chose and sent from himself to a general cathedral for two or more representatives . This general cathedral, consisting of representatives of Metropolines, and solved current cases related to the entire African Church. At the same time, of course, the possibility of the convening of all bishops of the African Church was not excluded, if necessary. So it lasted until 407, when at the Carfhagen Cathedral of this year it was decided that for the future there is no need to bother annual meetings and representatives from Metropolitan that current affairs should be solved in every metropolis of affiliation, and if cases concerning the entire African Church will meet Then, and only then, a general cathedral on a special invitation from the Carthaginian bishop should be convened and has to meet in that city where the need to meet or will be recognized more convenient (Ave. 14. 27. 84. 87. 106 - on the "Rules"). The Common Cathedral of the Carthaginian Church was considered the last instance of the management and court in the affairs of the African Church; To appeal to the decisions of the African Cathedrals for the sea, that is, to the Roman bishop, it is strictly prohibited by the Rules of the Carthaginian Church (Ave. 37. 118. 139). Meanwhile, the Pope, relying on the Resolution of the Sardiytsky Cathedral, providing him with the right to appeal to the court of local cathedrals and send to the case of their Commissioners to consider their claims, presented their claims to the Supreme Court and in the affairs of the African Church. This is especially clearly expressed by the desire of dads in the case of apiary, presbyter of the city of Sikki. Apiary, being deprived of Sana and is overcome from church communication with his bishop urvan, looking for protection for the Roman bishop Zosima. Zosima not only accepted apiary in church communication, but also sent his legates to Africa in order to apply for his restoration of him in his former San. This intervention of the Roman bishop in the affairs of the African Church prompted the Carthaginian bishop of Away to collect the Cathedral in Carthage in 419. At the Cathedral of the African Church's shepherds, they offered the papal ambassadors to set out the instructions entrusted to them. It turned out that the main thing from these assignments was to demand recognition for the Roman bishop of the right to consider appeals on the sentences of African bishops, and the second in order to try, in particular, on the restoration of apiary in the former Sana. Legali referred to the confirmation of their requirements on the rules of the Nicene Cathedral. According to certificates, however, it turned out that in the lists of the Nike rules that had African bishops, there are no of those rules to indicate the Roman ambassadors. For a better explanation of the case, African bishops appealed to the Bishops of Alexandrian, Antioch and Constantinople with a request to send them copies from the genuine rules of the Nicene Cathedral, and they wrote to the dad that they were ready to fulfill his desires if the latter would agree with the Nicex rules expected from the East; If the rules referred to the dad, there are no authentic Nicea rules, they will not suffer dad interference in the affairs of their church. In the same year, lists from the Nicene rules from the Alexandrian Patriarch Kirill and Constantinople - Attica were received in Carthage. Of course, they did not turn out that the papal ambassadors were quoted, "and African bishops in the fence of themselves from papal claims sent a copy of the genuine Nicea rules. The apiary, however, was still adopted by African bishops in church communication, according to the desire of the Pope. But his case did not end. The apiary soon stained himself with different crimes and was again convicted by bishops and is excommunicated from church communication. As before, an example, Apiary again turned with complaints about the sentence of local bishops to the Roman bishop of Cellin, and Dad accepted him again and again sent his commanders to Africa to decline the bishops to restore the accused in his san. This new Pope intervention in the affairs of the African Church prompted the Carthaginian Bishop of Away to convene the Cathedral in Carthage around 425. At the Cathedral of the Apiary was exploring his crimes in the presence of Roman ambassadors. Then, African bishops decided to send Pope to the Cellight of the Message from the face of the cathedral, with a persistent requirement, so that for the future Dad did not allow himself to take into communication over-in Africa. Referring to the rules of the Nicene Cathedral, the fathers of the Carfhagin Cathedral speak in their message: "Definitions of the Nicene Cathedral of both clerics of the lowest degree and the bishops themselves send them to their own Metropolitans. It is reasonable and righteously admitted that whatever affairs arose, they should be ended in their places. For the fathers were tried that neither for the Unified Region does not attend the grace of the Holy Spirit, through which the truth is the Ierhea of \u200b\u200bChrist and the one knows reasonably and contains firmly, and the Napache, when everyone, it is worthwhile in doubt about the fairness of the closest judges, it is allowed to begin to the cathedrals of their field and even To the general cathedral. Is there anyone who would believe that God and ours can have a single tokmo to inhale the trigger of the court, and countless Ieries, who came to the cathedral, will refuse he? .. and that some aki would be from the rib of the shrines were We send, we do not gain the definition of a single cathedral of fathers. So, do not deign at the request of some, send here by your clerics with researchers, and do not burn this, but we will not appear in the smoke of the world to the Church of Christ, who wishes to hear God brings the light of simplicity and the day of humility. " The African Church criticized the worldly sense not in some dads, but at home; The 48th rule she decided: "Yes, the bishop of the first throne of the examiner of the Jewels or the Supreme Priest, or with something similar, but Tokmo the bishop of the first throne" is not referred to. With the exception of Metropolitans, who belonged to the advantage of honor and authorities on the very provision of their department, other bishops of Metropolis in their mutual relations held the principle of seniority to initiate, so that the bishops, the youngest dedication, should have been honored with honor and respect for the oldest bishops (PR. 97. 100);

b) The African Church also respected his custom and relative to the court over the priests and dices, it was: meanwhile, as in other churches, the priest and deacon, along with other clerics, were subject to a court of one of their bishop, in the African Church, a local bishop judged with the participation of neighboring bishops the accused, - the priest with the participation of six, and Daucion with the participation of three bishops (Ave. 12. 29. 37);

c) Special discipline kept the African Church and relative to the marriage life of priests and deacons, demanding abstinence from them (Ave. 3. 3. 34. 87; CP. Dul. 12. 13. 30. John Course law. t. II, p. 371);

d) meets in the Rules of the Carthage Cathedral Curious RESOLUTION regarding the property of the clerics; In 41 PR. It says: "Through the bishops, presbyters, deacons or any clerics, no compass, on delivery, during their bishoprosis or exercise, will buy land or any land in their name: then yes Restored by the steadyings of the Lord, - isn't Tokmo, reaches a guarantee, will give these churches. Incidentally, what comes to themselves in the gift from someone, or by heritage of relatives: in order will come but their arrangement "(Wed 38. 40. 41. 4. 59 Rules of the Apostolic and 24 and 25 Av. Antioch Cathedral);

e) Carthaginian rules specifically indicated who cannot represent accusations against clerics and be a witness. The prosecutors cannot be damaged, that is, those who are the excavation, slaves and scickers for whom the accusation falls, also all those who are forbidden to be prosecutors civil laws, also those on whom lies the spot of dishonor, like : "Shameful" and present by shameful affairs, also heretics, pagans and Jews. However, it is only on cases concerning church crimes. According to the cases, all these persons can file complaints. In Witnesses on cases, the accusatory are not allowed the same persons as they cannot be prosecutors, and persons having from the genus less than 14 years (Pr. 8. 28. 143-146);

e) Carthaginian rules prohibit clerics to prefer secular trilons with spiritual, in case of initiation of charges or complaints against him, under the fear of imprisonment, it is forbidden to even refer to the king with a request for the direction of affairs in secular trilons, and you can ask the Tsar only by the Episcopian trial (PR. 15. 117). The lamemen could have to treat, at their request, to the court of the royal power and in cases of housing (Ave. 70. 107). g) Shepherders of the Carthaginian Church considered their duty to protect the poor from violence rich, to promote slaves to the will and request of the king, so that he would give the church authority to have in these cases, familiar with the laws and therefore successfully lead these cases in secular courts ( Ave. 93. 86. 109);

h) asked the shepherders of the African Church among the kings of protection and themselves, and the Orthodox churches. So, the exhaustment of all means to reconciliation with Donatists and to turn them to unity with Orthodox and seeing fierce attacks and violence, Orthodox shepherds in 404 on June 25, on the general Cathedral, they chose special deputies to submit a goning request for protection against the violence of donatistors. "Tsarist people's humanity," the fathers of the cathedral say, it will come to walk to the Khafolic Church, in a pious witch of their born, and the fortress of faith that cultivated, was fenced by their industrial: in order to the pious times, the dorned people did not spend on the powerless people through some fear when not May be seduced by means of conviction ... Against the rapidness of the Otchchensey, we ask us to give us the divine ("θείον" - "tsarist") help, not an extraordinary and not alien to the holy scriptures. For the Apostle Paul, as shown in the Acts of Apostolic., Conducting people of undertey preceded by military assistance. So, we ask about whether the ceilic churches in each country and different places belonging to each possession are strictly served. Approaches both sedes of pious self-containers, but the law is observed, the father published by the Blessed Memory by the father of their Feodosius, about the defendant of 10 pounds of gold with heretics of the handshaking and manquiced, also from the owners who will see the meeting of them ... also approaching ask, let them be bless to be renewed by the law, which takes the right to receive or leave the right to receive or leaving any law and on the will "(PR. 104. 105. 78. 120);

and) also requested the shepherds of the Church of the Orthodox Civilian Government and on the extermination of the residues of paganism - idols and the Kapples, who were still in many seaside sites, in villages and secluded possessions without any blessing, - about the prohibition of feasts introduced from pagan delusion, obscene dancing on the fields and The streets of urban, insulting the honor of mothers and chastity of pious wives, especially during the memory of martyrs, - on the reversion of the submission of shameful games on the day Sunday and to other bright days of the Christian faith (Ave. 69. 71. 72. 95).

y) if someone from the clerics wished to go to the king in their need, he had to get a liberty letter, in which it should be marked about his desire and need, to appear with her to the Roman bishop and from him to receive a certificate that opens access to yard If he had any need to suddenly introduce themselves to the yard into beings in Rome, then he still had to ask a diploma at the Roman bishop;

k) the sale of church property was decided in the African Church as follows: "Do not sell church property; But if this property does not bring revenues and there is a great need, then to represent about the parabbing bishop of the region and with a certain number of bishops consult that to teach should. In the same time, it is worth the need for the church that it is impossible to consult previously sales: it will call the bishop to testimony, although neighboring bishops and can be submitted to the Cathedral of all those permitted by the churches of his circumstances. In the same time, this will not create, then selling the one who sells hesitules and the cathedral will be lost and will lose its honor. "(Pr. 35. 42);

l) Regarding the life of the laity, it should be noted a decree on marriage, - that neither his wife left his wife, neither his husband could not be married to another person, but should be reconciled between him and live in marriage or remain in healing; African fathers wanted to be a law in this sense from the Civil Government (115);

8) Constantinople Cathedral In nectaria, 394, he was convened to resolve the dispute between two bishops, Agapija and Vagady, about which of them should own the Episcopian Department in Bostre (in Arabia). On this occasion, the Cathedral decided that the bishop could not be judged and spewed from Sanane two or three bishops and that for a court above the bishop, the sentence of a large cathedral is required or, - better - all the bishops of the famous Metropolis.

9) Constantinople Cathedral In the temple of the Holy Apostles 861, it was attended by: 318 bishops and dad's bisclastors, which were sent to Constantinople for the final elappation of traces of iconoborous heresy. The meetings of the cathedral took place in the temple of the Holy Apostles; This details is different from another Constantinople Cathedral with the Fotia that happened in the Church of St. Sophia. But it is more famous under the name "double", or "primitive". He is called "twice" because "double" was going for the same items; The acts and decisions of the first meeting could not be written and signed by the fathers of the Cathedral, because the iconoclasts prevented with their troubles; By restoring calm was kept by the second meeting, on which the former reasoning of the cathedral was signed. At the same second meeting, the rules of the cathedral were compiled, the rules of the cathedral were drawn up, by number 17. These rules, similar to the rules of the VII of the Ecumenical Cathedral, mean to correct many unrest in church life during the Church Discharge; Especially otherwise they speak about the life of monastic (Ave. 1-6). In the first rule, a person who donated his estate for the dispensation of the monastery was prohibited, referred to and recking the owner of the monastery, to dispose of them. In the 6 rule, the decision on the property of the monks themselves will be finished. "The monks should not have anything of own, but all of them belonging to them is approved for the monastery ... the wishing to monoton is given freedom to borrow about the estate before the break and transfer it to whom they want. At the entry into the monk, the monastery has the power over all of their property, and they are not granted to dispose of anything or borrow. Through someone who admires a certain compassion, without giving it to the monastery, in such an igumen or bishop will take it to make it, and in the presence of many, retrieving, and he will distribute the poor and needy. " In 9, the rule contains a manual instruction of a shepherd, how to handle the pupil sinners. "It is applied to the priest of God to provide a fraction of teaching and adventures, sometimes and church emptyms, and not rushing on human bodies with scams and blows. In addition, some will be completely unfortunate and the perpetuals, anyone, nobody rebel to the trial by the court of local civilian chiefs, in turning the fifth rule of the Antioch Cathedral, reducing indignation and Kramole to order by external power. " The concept of ensunation was determined in the 10 rule: "The holy service is assigned to God all dedicated to God and worship, not only vessels and sacred items used in the altar during worship, but things that are used outside the altar, in the church";

10) Cathedral in the Church of St. Sophia was in Constantinople In 879, with the secondary erection of Foto to the patriarchy throne. It was attended by many bishops (383) and representatives of the Pope and all Eastern Patriarchs. This cathedral had in mind to restore the world between Eastern Bishops, violated by violent reduction from the Ignatius throne; And also to resolve the issue of the Bulgarian Church, which served as an apple of discord between the Constantinople Patriarch and the Roman dad. The conciliation direction of this cathedral was expressed in its first rule (only 3), in which it was decided that the clerics or laity, but with the Konstantinople Patriarch, should be recognized as those of the Roman dad and vice versa and that the Pope will continue to do any innovations in the advantages of his department .

Note.

1. The 60th rule was formed from Scholia to 59 Rules, which listed the book of the Old and New Testament.

* Ilya Stepanovich Berdnikov,
Doctor of theology, Honored Ordinary
Professor of the Kazan Spiritual Academy and University

Text source: Orthodox Bogoslovskaya Encyclopedia. Volume 8, Stlb. 339. Publishing Petrograd. Annex to the spiritual magazine "Wanderer" For 1907, the spelling is modern.

In 2009, the local Cathedral of the ROC, which has, in particular, to elect the next Patriarch of Moscow. Before the Located Cathedral, on January 25 - 26, 2009, the Bishop Cathedral was scheduled, on which candidates for the Patriarchal throne should be identified. At the meeting of the Synod on December 10, a provision was also taken on the composition of the Local Cathedral (part 2 of paragraph 4 of Chapter II of the Charter of the Russian orthodox church); A commission for the preparation of the ROC's local cathedral consisting of 29 people led by the Patriarchal Location of the Metropolitan Smolensk and Kaliningrad Cyril.

The intronization of the newly elected patriarch was appointed on February 1, 2009.

On January 17, 2009, a pre-communal meeting of the UPC delegates to the Lady Cathedral of the ROC was held in Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. After the Divine Liturgy, Metropolitan, Kiev and All Ukraine, Vladimir turned to the Patya with the message dedicated to the election of the new Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. After a small meal, a bishop meeting was held in the hall of the bishops of the UPC of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, on which the management of the UPC Archbishop of Belotserkovsky and Boguslavsky Mitrofan (Yurchuk) acquainted all delegates of the Local Cathedral from the UPC with the Program and Rules of Works by the Bishop Cathedral of the ROC January 25-26, 2009 and the Local Cathedral of the ROC on January 27-29, 2009, as well as with the upcoming intronization of the newly elected patriarch. Also to the delegates of the Cathedral, the Primate of the UPC Metropolitan Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine with admonition of conservation of unity, peace and fraternal love During the work of the Bishops and Local Cathedrals of the ROC.

Participants

Among members of the Cathedral there were 72 women (both nuns and lareacies); Most of the participants in the cathedral were citizens of others rather than Russia, states. Total number delegates - 711, of which citizens of Russia - 44.8.8%, of Ukraine - 28.6%, Belarus - 7.1%; Bishops - 30.4%, clerics - 40%, laity - 23.4%; Men - 89.7%, women - 10.3%.

Security and secrecy measures

The cathedral was held in the situation of increased security and secrecy measures: in particular, at the time of his (as well as the Bishops' Cathedral on January 25, 2009), the work of mobile phones and any possible means of communication and recording in the placement of the temple was blocked by the use of the "special services"; The temple building was surrounded by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Bureau.

Agenda of the Cathedral

The convening of the cathedral was caused by the need to elevate the new charter of the ROC, according to the Charter of the ROC (). The work of the cathedral was designed for three days - from January 27 to January 29, nine plenary meetings were held. January 28, the cathedral was closed. According to the head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate of the priest Vladimir Vigilansky, this happened due to the fact that the main goal of the cathedral, the election of the new patriarch was executed on January 27. " The agenda is exhausted"," Said Vigilansky.

Lighting in the media

In the Russian media, the main candidates were originally called the Metropolitan of Smolensky and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaeva), Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsky Clement (Kapalin), Metropolitan Kratytsky and Kolomna Yuvenalia (Poyarkova) and Metropolitan Minsk and Slutsk Philaret (Vakhromeeva).

The personal composition of the cathedral caused an active discussion in the Russian media: a significant proportion of the Mijan - members of the Cathedral amounted to representatives of state and business. The church publicist Deacon Andrei Kuraev, known among the number of speeches addressed to the youth, made public accusations in "inconsistency in the means of the Metropolitan Party of the Clement."

A number of sites appeared on the Internet, where it was proposed to choose the patriarch by the vote of users. In addition, the three cathedral delegates had accounts in a live magazine.

Bishop Cathedral

The opening of the Bishops' Cathedral of the ROC January 25, 2009 was preceded by Liturgy in the upper (main) church of Christ the Savior, who headed the patriarchal location Metropolitan Cyril; Members of the Sacred Synod of the ROC, other archpastors who arrived at the Cathedral, the Moscow clergy, prayed for Liturgy.

After the meal, in the hall of church cathedrals (COLOVAL FLOOR HHS), the opening of the bishop cathedral was held, in which 198 of 202 of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Russian Orthodox Church took part.

As candidates for the Patriarchal Throne, the bishop cathedral put forward the following archleishers:

• metropolitan Smolensky and Kaliningrad Cyril (97 votes);
• metropolitan Kaluga and Borovsky Clement (32 votes);
• metropolitan Minsk and Slutsk Filaret (16 votes).

In addition, Metropolitan Krutitsky and Kolomna Yuvenaliy received 13 votes, Metropolitans Kiev Vladimir (Sabodan) and Chernivtsiy Onufry (Berezovsky) scored 10 votes; Metropolitan Voronezh Sergius (Fomin) - 7 votes, Chisinau Vladimir (Cantaryan) - 4 votes, Odessa Agafangel (Savvin) - 3 votes; For one voice, five ROC bishops received, which apparently voted for themselves.

The definitions "On the preparation of the Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church" and "On Candidates for the Patriarchal Throne" were also adopted; The diploma of the convening of the Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church is approved; Approved the Regulations on the composition of the Local Cathedral; A number of documents relating to the organization of the work of the Cathedral were reviewed and previously approved for subsequent approval.

Due to the fact that the agenda of the Bishop Cathedral was exhausted during the meeting on January 25, chairing the Cathedral of the Patriarcharchy Throne's Cathedral announced the end of his work. At the end of the meeting, the Most Holy Bishops - the participants of the cathedral were sanging a prayer "worthy."

Stroke of the Local Cathedral

January 27.

At the first plenary session, the Presidium of the Loan Cathedral from 13 people was elected. At the suggestion of the bishop cathedral were formed:

• secretariat of the Cathedral - Secretary of the Governing Cases of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Kaluga and Borovsky Clement (Kapalin);
• mandate Commission - Chairman Archbishop Khustsky and Vinogradovsky Mark (Petrovtsy));
• editorial Commission - Chairman Archbishop Kostroma and Galichsky Alexander (Mogilev));
• accounting Commission - Chairman Metropolitan Ekaterinodar and Kuban Isidore (Kirichenko)).

Metropolitan Kirill read a report on the state of the Russian Orthodox Church over the years of the Patriarchate Alexy II.

At the second plenary meeting, the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Vladimir, who told about the current state of the Ukrainian Church. He also said that he would give his voice to the elections for the candidacy of Metropolitan Kirill. During the meeting of the Cathedral, additional candidates for the Patriarch were not put forward, the proposal to refuse this right, according to Interfax agency, was received from the Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol Hilarion. Metropolitan Minsk and Slutsky Philaret took a self-disconnect and asked those who voted for him, vote for Cyril Metropolitan. In his statement, Metropolitan stressed: " We must consolidate before the election of the patriarch" At this meeting, the participants of the Cathedral approved the Program, Regulation and Agenda, as well as the Patriarch election procedure. Chairman of the Mandate Commission Archbishop Mark reported on the presence of a quorum.

About 19 hours It was announced the completion of the voting, the Accounts Committee began counting the votes. The press service of the Local Cathedral said that the announcement of the results would take place after 20:00 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

22:00 . Official voting results announced. Metropolitan Kirill, gaining 508 votes from 677, was elected by the Sixteenth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Metropolitan Kaluga and Borovsky Clement scored 169 votes. Of the 702 delegates, two did not put ballots in the urn. Thus, 700 ballots participated in the voting, 23 of which were invalid.

28 January

Before the start of the meetings in the lower (Preobrazhenskaya) Church of the Church of Christ the Savior was committed by the Divine Liturgy by the Iraiean Nine.

On this day, the following documents were adopted on three plenary sessions:

A positive assessment of the development of the Russian Church over the past 18 years is given, the acts of the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place between the local councils were approved. Cathedral called for clerics and laity more actively develop a dialogue with " with the surrounding society, including civil associations, the world of science and culture». Approved the Charter of the Russian Orthodox Church, corrected and complemented by the Jubilee Bishop Cathedral on August 16, 2000, with additions and amendments adopted by the Bishops' Cathedral on June 27, 2008. It was also determined that:

1. The right to amend this charter has a bishop cathedral with a subsequent statement by the Local Cathedral.
2. The rulings of the Bishop Cathedral are taken into force immediately after their adoption. The final approval of these rulings, as well as their abolition or change, is carried out by an exclusively local cathedral.

On January 28, the local council completed the work ahead of schedule, although it was previously planned that his work would last on January 29th. Upon completion of the work, Metropolitan Kirill turned to the participants of the Cathedral, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia:

Estimates of outcomes and prospects

Participants of the Cathedral interviewed by journalists: Mikhail Finger, Nikolai Polyakov, Vladimir Sinitsyn, Larisa Kopaenko, Sergey Mänik testified that " the consolidation of the bishopath, clerics and laymen fell in a special way on a local cathedral - almost all speakers testified" Igumen Maximilian (Klyuev) noted: " I am struck by the fact that everything went in a peaceful fraternal atmosphere» .

Sociologist religion, critic ROC Nikolai Mitrochin on January 29, 2009 wrote: "Surprise dirty election campaign ended. Patriarch elected. They became Metropolitan Cyril - the most scandalous figure of the newest church history, for a significant part of the church, symbolizing moral decomposition, infinite cynicism and the commitment of backstage policy<…> Police Measures during the Cathedral, "Druzhinniki", dispersing the few protesters, and the use of "Nashists" as a massive<…> - All this clearly shows that the fist as it was, and it will be an important tool in intracerer discussions. Immediately after the election of Kirill and his approximated (first of all, the Bishop of Viennese Hilarion) and were not at all suggested to think about the abolition of local councils - legally authorized (albeit actually profanted) representation from the clergy and laity. Instead, it was proposed to create a certain advisory body. All this demonstrates the main principle of the future rule of Patriarch Kirill - the abolition of even the formal residues of the "Cattle" and the replacement of its enlightened absolutism, in a significant part of the church, unambiguously estimated as "Padism". "

On the same day, a member of the Presidium of the World Russian People's Cathedral, Alexander Dugin argued: "A new stage will begin in the church, but not ideological. If at the Patriarch of Alexia II, the foreign policy of the church was moderate and rather defensive, now it will be offensive. Vladyka Kirill will lead the church to society to defend Orthodox values \u200b\u200bthere: RPC will oppose postmodernism, liberal culture and liberal individuality. " .

Soon after the end of the Cathedral, the bishop of Hilarion (Alfeyev) (an employee of the OSDS in the 1990s) was expressed as follows: "The election of Metropolitan Cyril Patriarch is one of the most important events of the newest history of the Russian Church. I think it will be a very bright and fruitful patriarchy, which corresponds to the exceptional qualities of the newly elected primitor. The so-called Putinsky rating of Metropolitan on the local council - 72% - indicates a high level of confidence in Him. The crusade will not be - there will be a new "baptism of Russia."

Raduted from the Church former cleric ROC Gleb Yakunin on February 11, 2009: "The Local Cathedral that had even according to the 2000 charter, the full right to not approve the usurpation of his power on the part of the Bishops' Cathedral with an amazing ease, apparently, under the hypnotic influence of the bright and strong personality of the chosen Patriarch, made a unique historical act of" self-axle "as a result Which the last secant Cathedral can be called "the Cathedral of Exile from the RPC MP Cathedral." "

The participant of the Cathedral of the Bishop Geneva Mikhail (Donskov) said: "It was the first secure cathedral, when the ROC bishops and the ROCI elected the new charter of the Russian Orthodox Church. This act is very important for the church, for the entire Russian people and for the entire Orthodox world. "

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Notes

1. gL II, paragraph 2 of the charter of the ROC
2. The local council of the Russian Orthodox Church will be held on January 27-29, December 10, 2008.
3. The fans of the Cathedral will choose the path of development of Orthodoxy RIA Novosti January 11, 2009.
4. Magazines meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church of December 10, 2008 // Magazine № 96
5. Regulations on the composition of the Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, the official website of the MP December 10, 2008.
6. Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church will be held on January 27-29 / News / Patriarchy.ru
7. The new patriarch will be chosen on January 27-29, but the ROC does not doubt that God has already chosen on NewSru on December 10, 2008
8. The Holy Synod issued proposals for holding the bishop and local councils of the Russian Orthodox Church, the official website of the MP December 24, 2008
9. "01/17/2009. Kiev. Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Saturday before the Epiphany
10. List of participants in the Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church of 2009, the official website of MP December 17, 2008
11. Malorosiysky land (Neopr.) . NG Religion (January 21, 2009). - From the seven of the delegates of the Local Cathedral of almost two people represent Ukraine. Checked January 21, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
12. An unfamiliar patriarch, or what we teaches the history of the christ of Christ the Savior of Izvestia January 26, 2009.
13. Hierarchs did not rely on the lot (Neopr.) . NG Religion (January 28, 2009). - Metropolitan Filaret took a self-deduction. Checked January 30, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
14. Solid Cathedral of Solid Lord (Neopr.) . New newspaper (January 28, 2009). - Almost all delegates are somehow connected with big business. Checked January 31, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
15. The bishops chose candidates for the patriarchs (Neopr.) . Izvestia (January 26, 2009). - The list was formed under the conditions of absolute secrecy. Checked January 28, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
16. Cathedral passions (Neopr.) . New news (January 28, 2009). - The election of the patriarch was accompanied by enhanced security measures, pickets and gossip in the media. Checked January 29, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
17. gL IV, paragraph 16 of the charter of the ROC
18. The program of the Local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church of 2009
19. The right Cathedral of the ROC completed the work ahead of schedule
20. Named the date of entry into the position of the new Head of the ROC Lenta.Ru 10 December 2008.
21. Without unnecessary theologians, Kommersant No. 6 (4061) of January 16, 2009.
22. House without owner New news January 13, 2009.
23. VIP-laity and the phenomenon of Daniel independent newspaper January 15, 2009.
24. Li Deltsi and an official on a local cathedral, - the opinions of the priests regions.ru January 13, 2009.
25. Manager instead of Patriarch New newspaper January 19, 2009
26. Andrei Kuraev. Unpredictable Cathedral (Neopr.) . NG Religion (January 21, 2009). - Is it possible to predict the outcome of church elections?. Checked January 21, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
27. Metropolitan Clement urged the media to "not project a secular election campaign to church" Newsru on January 15, 2009.
28. Direct discord (Neopr.) . Kommersant (January 22, 2009). - On the eve of the election of the patriarch, the war of compromates began. Checked January 22, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
29. Candidate of the Party of Power (Neopr.) . Vedomosti (January 22, 2009). "The Mityan-United Russia goes to the election of the Patriarch with the conviction that the leadership of the country expects the victory of Metropolitan Kirill. Checked January 23, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.
30. Light of good (Neopr.) . Russian newspaper (January 23, 2009). - The Question of the Patriarchy Pestrol Metropolitan Smolensk and Kaliningrad Cyril is responsible for Questions "RG". Checked January 23, 2009. Archived on March 22, 2012.

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Preparation

Bishop Cathedral

Stroke of the Local Cathedral

June 7.

With a greeting on behalf of the Government of the USSR and on behalf of the Religious Council, his chairman Yuri Khristoradnov made. Then, the presidential Metropolitan Filaret read a report and suggested a consumer for the vote and approval agenda, the regulations and the election procedure, the projects of which immediately before the delegates were distributed, as well as the composition of the Presidium, the Secretariat, the Mandate, Editorial and Accounts Commission.

The report of the Patriarchal location was said about the need for the speedy entry of the new Patriarch in the management of the Russian Orthodox Church to address the urgent problems, the activities of the studied Patriarch Pimen were presented, mentioned about the last celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia, about the glove of John Kronstadt, about the changes of the occurree after the local cathedral 1988. He paid special attention to the situation in the church in the western regions of Ukraine, where the world was violated by the actions of UNIPACE and Solvders-AutoChefalists and also condemned the decision of the Bishop Cathedral of the Russian Foreign Church on the establishment of its (parallel RPCs) of church structures within the USSR.

The most important act of the first day of the meeting was the election of the Patriarch. The local council approved the election procedure proposed by the Bishop Cathedral:

1. The literary cathedral of the secret or open vote asserts the list of three candidates offered by the Bishop Cathedral for election from their number of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
2. The fans of the Cathedral is entitled to make additional names, guided by ch. 4, § 17, p. Ah Charter on the management of the Russian Orthodox Church.
3. To incorporate additional persons, a secret vote is held on the list of candidates: persons who have received support for at least 12 members of the Local Cathedral are made to the Bulletin. Favorites are candidates who scored more than 50% of the vote.
4. The local cathedral of the secret ballot elects one of the candidates approved by him. 5) Selected Patriarch is considered a bishop who scored more than 50% of the vote.
5. If none of the candidates scored more than 50% of the vote, then in this case a re-voting is carried out on two candidates who scored the greatest number of votes.

In addition to 3 candidates from the bishop cathedral, the names of Metropolitan Krutitsky, Minsk Filaret, Volokolam Pitirima, Stavropol Gideon (Dokin) and Sourojo Anthony were proposed on the local council. The candidacy of Metropolitan Anthony presided over the Cathedral Metropolitan Philaret (Denisenko) was reputing, recalling that the charter does not allow the feast of the Patriarch of a person who did not have Soviet citizenship. When members of the cathedral suggested changing this item of the Charter, they were clarified that in the agenda that was not accepted by the agenda. With an open vote for four additionally proposed candidates, it turned out that Metropolitan Gideon supported less than 12 people, so the names of only three Metropolitans were made to the lists for secret ballot. From 316 voting Metropolita Pitirima supported 128 Catoryans, Metropolitan Filaret - 117 and Metropolitan Juvenali - 106. It became the question: whether to consider this half of all from all those who voted (316/2 \u003d 158, and then none of the three out of three) or from the number of valid bulletins ( 215/2 \u003d 107.5, and then two more Metropolitans are added to the candidates from the bishop cathedral). This nuance was not taken into account, but the presidential Metropolitan of Kiev Philaret announced that none of the additionally nominated candidates had received the support of half of the members of the Cathedral. Thus, three candidates put forward by the bishop cathedral remained in the voting list.

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Metropolitan Kiev and Galician Philaret.

After the announcement of the final results of the voting, the newly elected Patriarch answered the question of the chairman of the Cathedral registered for him to him: " Election of me by the consecrated local cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with thanksgiving and Nimalo contrary to the verb" Then the Cathedral Act on the election of His Holiness Patriarch and Cathedral Letter addressed to him. Under the topics, all the bishops - members of the Location Cathedral put signatures. At the end of the evening meeting, the Archbishop of the Russian Church of the Russian Church of the Archbishop of the Orenburg Leonte (Bondar) turned to the newly elected Patriarch Alexy with congratulations: "The force of the Unity of the Holy Spirit The local Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church elected to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia's Patriarch, the Fifteenth Lamp of the All-Russian Patriarchal throne. We rejoice and comply with the whole heart and with all my heart welcome your Holiness. The patriarchy of your Holy Holy Fee will be blessed for the Russian Orthodox Church and Savings for Your Shrine. " In the response word, Patriarch Alexy II thanked all members of the Local Cathedral for election and congratulations and said:

"I am aware of the difficulty and feat of the upcoming ministry. My life, which from youth devoted to the ministry of the Church of Christ, is coming in the evening, but the sanctified cathedral imposes on me a feat of the primacy service. I accept this election, but in the first minutes I ask highly intended and repulsed archipers, honest clearing and all the vigorous flock of all-Russian our prayers, help me help me and strengthen me in the upcoming ministry. Many questions get up today in front of the church, before society and before each of us. And in their decision, we need a cathedral mind, a joint decision and discussion of them and on the bishops of the cathedrals, and on the local councils, according to our church in 1988, the Charter. The Cathedral principle should spread to the diocesan, and for parish life, only then we will solve those questions that faces the church and in front of society. Church activity is expanding today. From the Church, from her servant, mercy and charity, and the upbringing of various age groups of our believers are expected from the church leader. We must serve as a reconciling force that combines strength and then when our life often accompany separation. We must do everything to help strengthen the unity of the Holy Orthodox Church. I am aware of my impact and I hope for your holy prayers and help in the upcoming service. "

Almost until midnight, the participants of the Local Cathedral were approached by the Favorites Patriarch, bringing their congratulations. The first day of the Cathedral was completed by singing thanksgiving prayer. In the first, other questions were raised, the detailed consideration of which had already had for the second day.

June 8

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Metropolitan Rostov and Novocherkassky Vladimir.

Much attention was paid to relationships with the Russian Church Abroad. For the first time, this problem was raised by one of the Delegates-Mijan, who proposed to satisfy the three demands of the Russian Church Abroad - the canonization of the Cathedral of New Martyrovikov and the Confessors of the Russian, condemnation of the Declaration of Metropolitan Sergius (Stragor) from 1927; Refusal to ecumenism. Speeches of Metropolitans Krutitsky (Zoyarkov), Vienna Irinea (Zuzemil), Archbishops of Smolensk Kirill, Saratov Pimen (Khmelevsky), Yaroslavl Plato (Udovenko), Priest Vitaly Shastin, Hieromonach Vitaly Shastin, Ieromonach (Alfeyev) and others .

The general condemnation caused the solution of the Synod of the Russian Foreign Church of May 16 on the creation of its parishes and a hierarchy in the territory of the Russian Orthodox Church. The councils of the Cathedral qualified this decision as directed to the sowing of the Troubles and the new split and stressed that it would stimulate the emergence of conflicts like Suzdal, where Archimandrite Valentine (Rusans), who became the canonical conflict with the bishop, announced his transition to the jurisdiction of the ROCP. Archbishop Platon proposed to contact the pastoral word to all Orthodox Russian people who are in the jurisdiction of the Karlovak Church so that "somehow enabling them." In the conclusion, Archbishop SMOLENSKY Kirill.

We have no requirements for the "Karlovak" of the Church, we are ready at least now to start full communication, because we believe that the separation was based on historical, political factors, and not canonical, not theological (if canonical, they were due to political situation). These factors relate to mainly interpretation of history, and it has never been something dividing churches.<…> dissatisfaction ... gave rise to part of our public a romantic and nostalgic attitude towards the foreign church. There is a simple principle: there is good, where we are not ... By nature, this mood is not bad: it also could be a source of inspiration for communication between two parts of the separated church. But, unfortunately, some events brought new drama in this relationship. We are talking primarily about the act of Archimandrite Valentina (Rushansova) ... It was always so in the church: unstable went into the split.<…> Political split, which has yet been the property of abroad, is now transferred to the depths of our church at the moment when new opportunities appear at the church when the whole society turns to us face.<…> Each split is powered by unhealthy forces in the church. And if this split will be as far as possible in our church, this split will be ... The arrivals of the foreign church, if they open we, can turn into a wastewall, where all unhealthy elements go. I do not want to give here a characteristic of Archimandrite Valentina (Rusans), but I think most of those present know what kind of personality ...

Accepted by the Local Cathedral after the discussion and amendments to the presented draft definitions included in addition to the approval of the Resolutions of the Bishop Cathedral of 1989 and 1990 and the Synodal Decisions of the Prior Period: to entrust the Commissions of the Sacred Synod on the Canonization of Saints to prepare materials for the canonization of martyrs affected by faith in the years persecution in the XX century; Separate from the Novosibirsk diocese parishes in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Kemerovo Region, and form the Krasnoyarsk Diocese from them, to form the Saransk Diocese on the territory of the Mordovian ASSR, allocating it from the Penza Diocese; To pay special attention to the archpasts, shepherds and layers on the need to revive the Christian parish community, to the organization in all arrival.

Giving an assessment of the relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church with Roman Catholic, the local cathedral was forced to state that they are seriously overshadowed by the Uniate problem, which painfully aggravated in the West of Ukraine. Recognizing the rights of uniation communities for legal existence, the local council condemned violence against Orthodox clerics and the laity, the seizures of Orthodox churches and protested against the unconstitutional actions of the local authorities of Western Ukraine in relation to citizens of Orthodox religion. The Cathedral was also condemned by the actions of Ukrainian Skolkolnikov-AutoChefalists who violated the church world in Western Ukraine, and rejected illegal claims set forth in the last documents of the Russian Church Abroad. The local council noted cases of violation of church and canonical discipline by the laity and clergy in different dioceses and condemned the public speeches of individual church or nearby people who, from the face of the church, they express thoughts not only by the church, but also sowing solutions in the Orthodox flock.

The local council also made a statement in connection with the draft law of the USSR "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations", which contained concrete amendments to the document:

"A published draft law represents the composite parts of the Church (comments, monasteries, departments, centers, spiritual educational institutions) the right of a legal entity, but deprives the church as a holistic religious organization. This provision not only continues, but further legalizing the discriminatory in relation to the church the position of the sad memory of the legislation on cults of 1929. As it is known, this legislation reflected the ideological plants hostile towards the Church and was aimed at the destruction of religious structures. This "continuity" of the old and new laws in the most important thing for the church causes anxiousness with us ... in the church there can be no independent from the hierarchical center and from each other "religious societies". All parishes make up one whole with their bishop, as well as all the bishops and the church districts headed by them - the dioceses are one whole within the limits of the local church. That is why the law must recognize the right of a legal entity for the church as a single organization with the components of it by parishes, monasteries, spiritual educational institutions, management and centers. At the same time, each of the listed church institutions in turn may also have the right to legal entity. Delegation of part of this right of one institution to another, such as, for example, from the diocese - the parish, from the Patriarchate - Diocese, should be regulated by internal church legislation in accordance with the creed. To secular legislation in the Legal State should respect the creed, on the basis of which the church law is valid and the church institutions are functioning. "

On the evening of June 8, his chairman Metropolitan Alexy, elected by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, spoke with the final word at the Council.

The sanctified local cathedral, convened for the election of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia completed his acts. The election of the cathedral, through which manifested themselves, believe, the will of God in the Russian Church, on my unnecessaryness is entrusted with the burden of primitate ministry. Great responsibility of this ministry. Taking it, I realize my weakness, my weakness, but I find a reinforcement that the election was held by the Cathedral of the Cathedral, shepherds, shepherds and laity, designed to the sacred cathedral. I find a reinforcement in the upcoming ministry to me, the fact that my joining the throne of Moscow saints was united in time with the great church celebration - the glorification of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt, the Wonderworker, Chatterous to the entire Orthodox world, the entire Saint Rus, the burial place in the city, which is located in the city Until now, I was my cathedral hail. The Russian Orthodox Church, fulfilling the duty bewit from God to be a salt of the earth and the light of the world, is ready to sacrificously serving the spiritual well-being of his earthly Fatherland. The conditions in which the Russian Orthodox Church makes its apostolic ministry in society, are largely determined by its legal status. A nationwide discussion of published in the press and adopted in the first reading of the law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations began. I would like to emphasize the seriousness and foundation of the concern that was expressed on the local cathedral in connection with the content of this law ... The basis of the Council of the Orthodox Church is the principle of the Council. It is necessary to clearly realize that the cathedral beginning of the church is organically combined with hierarchical. Archpastics, shepherders, laity, all church people are responsible for the fate of the church. But the ministry of the Church is unenky. According to Orthodox canonical teaching, a greatly expressed reverend John Damascus, the church was awarded to the bishops. In the Church, everything is accomplished in the spirit of love, the onmost little and unanimity, with respect for canonical discipline. The retreats from these universities began to threaten the church with tribulations and troubles. By entering into a meeting of the consecrated cathedral, I would like to call on all highly intended and excited archipers, honest clearing, monastic, our pious believers do everything for the unity of the Church of Christ. While in modern society is intolerance to each other, we must show an example of fraternity, cooperation, mutual understanding. The love of Christ should unite us in our ministry to God, the Holy Church of Christ and the Patia, which is awarded to our spiritual leadership.

The journalists noted a significantly overwhelmed composition of the cathedral, which was not only about the laity (among them there were several delegates under 25 years old), but also to the bishop.

Metropolitan Kirill (later Patriarch): "I had the opportunity to participate not only in the work of the local cathedral, but also in its preparation. Of course, the then work was strained, but the joyful feeling that much in the life of the Church and society changes for the better, probably prevailed. There was a feeling of great responsibility for the future of the Church. Of course, the same responsibility is felt today. "

Archpriest Georgy Trubitsyn, Member of the Cathedral: "In those years, the local council became a great joy for the clergy, because the question was raised about the religiosity that was not in our country for 70 years. We all prayed that the people of Russian returned to the Fathers faith. "