On February 20, 2024, a videoconference brought together the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church, presided over by Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary. The principal item on the day’s agenda was the analysis of the Declaration Fiducia supplicans of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, published on December 18, 2023, on “blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples.”