Church Council

The duly appointed priest in charge of the Parish acts as the Chairman of the Parish Council and presides at all meetings of the Church Council. When and as necessary and with blessing of Diocesan Bishop, one of the other priests on the staff of the Parish may deputise.

The parish priest is responsible before the Diocesan Authorities as the direct head of the parish, and responsible for the proper organization of the Church and the parish.

The Parish priest is supported in the running of the Parish life by the assistant clergy, the Starosta, Churchwarden (Ktitor), Treasurer, Head Sister and Choir Director who are all dei facto members of the Church Council. The parishioners at the Annual General Meeting elect all other members of the Council

Members of the Church Council are elected at an Annual General Meeting of the parish. Every parishioner who regularly confesses, partakes of the communion, pays annual fees and is good standing in the parish may be elected a Church Council member.

In our parish, the annual fee for an individual is GBP 50 or GBP 200 per family. However, if a family or individual is unable to pay this sum in a single payment, with the agreement of the parish priest and Treasurer, the dues can be paid quarterly or monthly and the amount can be reduced at the discretion of the parish priest.

The Church Council currently consists of the following members:

Permanent Council members:

HE Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Germany and Gt. Britain

The Parish Priest

Starosta (Churchwarden) - Vera McClenaghan, +44 1932 226 910

Ktitor - Pavel Lisitsin

Treasurer - Galina Shirokova +44 7715 771315

Head Sister - Tatiana Holodny, +44 7780 593 482

Choir Director - Anna Kobrina, +44 7761 370 219, akobrina@yandex.ru

Elected Council members:

Subdeacon Alexander Shadrin

Andreas Borisas

Oleksiy Danylenko

Daria Asadullaeva

Natalya Kocabas

Alexey Bykov

In addition to the Council members, the members of the Board of Trustees of the Church Charity are permitted to join in the deliberations of the Church Council. The Church Council has the discretion of co-opting non-elected members on to the Council until next AGM and for allowing Trustee members to attend and vote at Church Council meetings.

The Churchwarden is elected at an Annual General Meeting for a period of three years. Other non-dei facto appointed members of the Church Council are elected for one year. The Head Sister is elected at a Sisterhood General Meeting.

At an Annual General Meeting every member of the Church Council accounts to the parishioners for their work during the year

You can read the Minutes of the meetings of Church Council here.

Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting of the Parish (28 June 2009) can be viewed here.