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[[File:Архиерейский собор Русской православной церкви 1943 года.jpg|thumb|1943 meeting of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church]]
The '''1943 meeting of the [[Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church]]''' held on September 8, 1943, was the first [[Synod#Orthodox|sobor]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] since the [[1917–18 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church|1917–18 Local Council]]. The assembly was held in [[Moscow]] in the [[Patriarchal Residence in Chisty Lane]] in [[Khamovniki District]] of the city, that just had been returned to the Moscow Patriarchate by the [[Government of the Soviet Union|Soviet Government]].
The assembly unanimously elected Metropolitan [[Patriarch Sergius of Moscow|Sergius]] of Moscow and [[Kolomna]] to be the [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus']].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/09/14/archives/the-russian-patriarch.html|title=The Russian Patriarch|date=14 September 1943|work=The New York Times|access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref>
The assembly also [[Excommunication#Eastern Orthodox Church|excommunicated]] everyone who [[Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union|collaborated with the Axis powers]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/09/19/archives/russian-church-ousts-all-who-have-aided-nazis.html|title=Russian Church Ousts All Who Have Aided Nazis|date=19 September 1943|work=The New York Times|access-date=30 March 2022}}</ref> and reestablished the [[Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church]].
==Participants==
The assembly was attended by 19 bishops: all the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church who at that time held their positions on the territories not occupied by [[Wehrmacht|Nazi troops]], except Bishop [[Photius (Topiro)]] of [[Kuban]] and [[Krasnodar]], whose reasons of absence are unknown, and Archbishop [[Barlaam (Pikalov)]] of [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]], assigned to his office from the [[Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Komi ASSR]] field-crop-walkers one day before the opening of the Council. Besides the bishops Archpriest Nikolai Kolchitsky, rector of the [[Yelokhovo Cathedral]] in Moscow also participated in the assembly. He became a Synod member as the head on the [[Chancellery of the Moscow Patriarchate|Property Management Directorate of the Moscow Patriarchate]].
# [[Patriarch Sergius of Moscow|Sergius (Stragorodsky)]], Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, [[locum tenens]] of the patriarchal throne
# [[Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow|Alexius (Simansky)]], Metropolitan of [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]
# [[Nicholas Yarushevich|Nicholas (Yarushevich)]], Metropolitan of [[Kiev]] and [[Halych|Galich]]
# [[Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky|Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky)]], Archbishop of [[Krasnoyarsk]]
# [[John (Bratolyubov)]], Archbishop of [[Sarapul]]
# [[Andrew (Komarov)]], Archbishop of [[Kazan]]
# [[Alexius (Palitsyn)]], Archbishop of [[Samara|Kuybyshev]]
# [[Stephen (Protsenko)]], Archbishop of [[Ufa]]
# [[Sergius (Grishin)]], Archbishop of [[Nizhny Novgorod|Gorky]] and [[Arzamas]]
# [[John Sokolov|John (Sokolov)]], Archbishop of [[Yaroslavl]] and [[Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast|Rostov]]
# [[Aleksius (Sergeyev)]], Archbishop of [[Ryazan]]
# [[Basil (Ratmirov)]], Archbishop of [[Smolensk]] and [[Tver|Kalinin]]
# [[Bartholomew (Gorodtsov)]], Archbishop of [[Novosibirsk]] and [[Barnaul]]
# [[Gregory (Chukov)]], Archbishop of [[Saratov]] and [[Volgograd|Stalingrad]]
# [[Alexander (Tolstopyatov)]], Bishop of [[Perm, Russia|Molotov]]
# [[Pitirim (Sviridov)]], Bishop of [[Kursk]]
# [[Benjamin (Tikhonitsky)]], Bishop of [[Kirov, Kirov Oblast|Kirov]]
# [[Demetrius (Gradusov)]], Bishop of [[Ulyanovsk]]
# [[Eleutherius (Vorontsov)]], Bishop of [[Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast|Rostov]]
==See also==
* [[Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church]]
** [[1945 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church]]
==References==
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