Most Holy Synod
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The Most Holy Governing Synod was the highest governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1721 and 1917. It was abolished following the February Revolution of 1917 and replaced with a restor
Headquarters of the Holy Synod of the Russian Empire in St. Petersburg
The participants of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Holy Synod on July 26, 1911 in the main hall of the Metropolitan Housing in Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
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Platon Rozhdestvensky
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Platon Rozhdestvensky, born Porphyry Theodorovich Rozhdestvensky, was the Russian Orthodox Archbishop of the Aleutians and North America from 1907 to 1914 and again from 1922 to 1934. He was also reme
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…1912–1917 Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky), Metropolitan of Saint-Petersburg, (since 1915 – of Kiev) 1917–1917 Platon (Rozhdestvensky), Archbishop of Kartli and Kakheti, Exarch of Georgia (later – Metropolitan of Tbilisi and Baku) Holy Synod…
c. 1907
Metropolitan Platon in 1921