Metropolitan Volodymyr Elected Chairman of the Commission of Inter-Conciliar Presence for Counteracting and Overcoming Ecclesiastical Schisms of the Russian Church

MOSCOW-KYIV — On January 29, 2010, in the course of the first session of the Inter-Conciliar Assembly, held under presidency of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, thirteen commissions of the Inter-Conciliar Presence and their composition were approved, as reported by the web site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.

A number of commissions are headed by the primate and the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, that is:

Metropolitan Volodymyr was elected chairman of the Commission for Countering and Overcoming Church Schisms;
The UOC Administrator Archbishop Metrophanes of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav chairs the commission for parish life and practice, and Rector of the Kyiv Theological Schools Archbishop Anthoniy of Boryspil chairs the commission for theological education and religious enlightenment.

On January 29, during the first session of the Inter-Conciliar Presence the Commission on the Church, State and Society Interaction was set up.   

On the part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church the UOC official website editor-in-chief and officiating chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the UOC Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy entered its composition.  He also joined the Commission for Countering and Overcoming Church Schisms.

The following official representatives of the UOC also entered into the commissions' composition.   
 
Commission on Church Administration and Conciliarity Actualization Mechanisms in the Church:

- Archbishop Mark of Khust and Vynohradiv.
 
Commission on Liturgical Issues and Church Art:

- Metropolitan Irinei of Dniperoptrovsk and Pavlohrad;

- Archimandrite Filaret Zverev;

- Hegumeness Seraphima Shevchyk.
 
Commission on Parish Life and Practice:

- Archbishop Metrophanes of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav - chairman;
Metropolitan Hilarion of Donetsk and Mariupol.
 
Commission on Church Mission Organization:

- Bishop Metrophanes of Horlivka and Sloviansk.

Commission for the Life of Monasteries and Monasticism:

- Metropolitan Onuphriy of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna;

- Archbishop Pavel of Vyshhorod;

- Hegumeness Seraphima Shevchyk.

Commission for Theological Education and Religious Enlightenment:

- Archbishop Anthonii of Boryspil - co-chairman;

- Volodymyr Bureha
 

Commission for Organization of Social Activity and Charitable Work of the Church:

- Bishop Metrophanes of Horlivka and Slovyansk;

- Vasiliy Horbal;

- Andriy Derkach.
 
Commission on the Church, State and Society Interaction:

- Bishop Alexander of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi;

- Archpriest Heorhiy Kovalenko;

- Hegumeness Seraphima Shevchyk;

- Andriy Derkach;

- Vasiliy Horbal.
 
Commission for Countering and Overcoming Church Schisms:

- Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine - chairman;

- Metropolitan Agafangel of Odessa and Izmail;

- Archbishop Metrophanes of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav;

- Bishop Alexander of Pereiasklav-Khmelnytskyi;

- Archpriest Andriy Novikov.
 
Commission on the Attitude towards Heterorthodoxy and Other Religions:

- Archbishop Augustine of Lviv and Halych;

- Archpriest Andriy Novikov.
 
Commission for Information Activity of the Church and Relations with the Mass Media:

- Archpriest Heorhiy Kovalenko;

- hegumeness Seraphima Shevchyk.