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On 27 July 2009, the Holy Synod appointed him Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Synodal Department for the Coordination of Church and Society.
In 2009, with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all the Rus, he was a member of the Council for the Study of Religious Materials to identify extremist materials in the RF Ministry of Justice. He was the official representative of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, a member of the Commission on organising state support and the development of original Cossack culture, a member of the Public Council under the Federal Drug Control Service, and a member of the Public Council under Rosreestr[[w:Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography|Rosreyestr]].
From 2010 to 2013, he was the Executive Secretary of the Interreligious Council ща of the [[w:Commonwealth of Independent States|Commonwealth of Independent States]].
On 4 October 2012, the Holy Synod appointed him representative of the World Russian People’s Council at the UN and assigned him to St Nicholas Cathedral in New York City.
