On the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church

Abstract

The article by Professor S. V. Troitsky (1878–1972) is a response to the Council of
Bishops of the Russian Church held in Moscow on November 21–23, 1944. The Council consisted
of 50 bishops and was chaired by the Patriarchal Locum Tenens Metropolitan Alexy (Simansky) in
order to develop the regulations for the Local Council, necessary for the election of the new Primate
of the Russian Orthodox Church after the death of His Holiness Patriarch Sergius (Stragorodsky)
on May 15, 1944. At the same Council, the draft «Regulations on the Management of the Russian
Orthodox Church» prepared by Archbishop Grigory (Chukov) of Pskov and Porkhovsky and subsequently
adopted by the Local Council of 1945 were considered.