Metropolitan Tikhon took the post of head of the Crimean Metropolis – Kommersant
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Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov was appointed to the post of head of the Crimean Metropolis. Now the head of the Pskov Metropolis will be His Eminence Bishop Arseny of Yuryev, and the head of the Porkhov Metropolis will be Hieromonk Andrei (Korotkov). The information was published in the journals of the Holy Synod, posted on website Russian Orthodox Church.
“The Right Reverend Metropolitan Lazar of Simferopol and Crimea is to be retired with an expression of gratitude for the archpastoral labors he has endured over the course of 43 years,” says the decision of the synod.
The Synod also appointed Bishop Constantine of Zaraisk as the new head of the Patriarchal Exarchate in Africa and dismissed the head of the affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Dionysius of the Resurrection. He was appointed Metropolitan of Omsk and Tauride. Metropolitan Gregory of Ekaterinodar and Kuban was appointed as the new manager of affairs.
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