Gregory Petrov

Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate (since 2023), permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church and its secretary.

He combined his studies at the university with performing his duties as a psalm-reader at the Holy Cross Church in the city of Yaroslavl.

In March 2010, he was released from obedience in the Diocese of Perm, added to the staff and left for Moscow to carry out church obedience in the newly formed Synodal Department for Prison Ministry, which was headed by Bishop Irenarch (Grezin), who became Bishop of Krasnogorsk, vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.

[6] On January 9, 2014, in the Church of All Saints, the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence in Danilov Monastery, Metropolitan Barsanuphius Sudakov of Saransk and Mordovia, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

[7] On January 24, 2014, in the Church of All Saints, those who shone in the Russian land, the Patriarchal residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, he was nominated bishop.

[9] From November 17 to 28, 2014, in Moscow, he attended two-week advanced training courses for newly installed bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church.