2009 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 2009 (Russian: Поместный собор Русской православной церкви (2009)) was the sixth Local Council in the second patriarchal period (since 1918) of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, held from January 27 to 28, 2009, in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior. It was the first Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church after the Local Council of 1990. Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad was eleted as the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.