Ophelia VII
During the 34th to 35th millenium a power struggle raged between the Administratum on Terra and the Ecclesiarchy. Folowing a series of weak ecclesiarchs, Benedict IV decided to move the Holy Synod and the Adeptus Ministorum to Ophelia VII. The distance would help protect them from the growing power of the administratum. Ophelia VII was benedict IV's diocese and the richest system after Earth and Mars. The adeptus ministorum remained on Ophelia VII until the end of the 35th millenium when Greigor XI began the move back to Terra.
After the end of the Age of Apostasy, when Sebastion Thor was appointed as ecclesiarch, he formed the Synod Ministorum on Ophelia VII as a secondary governing body to the main one on terra.
(Ref: Codex Sisters of Battle, 2nd ed;)
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