On May 13, in Kyiv, under the headship of Patriarch Filaret, a session of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) was held.
As Metropolitan Adrian is also the head of the Bohorodsk Eparchy (Moscow Region, Russia), he remains the head of that eparchy with the title of Metropolitan of Bohorodsk.
The synod excluded Metropolitan Adrian from the number of its permanent members and replaced him by Archbishop Serhii (Horobtsov) of Donetsk and Mariupol.
The synod positively evaluated the President Viktor Yanukovych's meeting with Patriarch Filaret and the heads of other churches and religious organizations of Ukraine, and stressed the importance of the statements of the president as to strict observance by the state of the principle of equal treatment of all denominations.