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On 5 October 2018, the Metropolitan Pavel, head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church), announced there would be a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 15 October in Minsk. He said that "The situation with the Orthodox Church in Ukraine will be on the agenda of the meeting". [45]
The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, while acknowledging the primacy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia, believed that the small Roman Catholic minority in Russia, in continuous existence since at least the 18th century, should be served by a fully developed church hierarchy with a presence and status in Russia, just as the ...
Russian Russian Orthodox Church's Holy Synod issued a statement on September 8, 2018, in response to the launch of the procedure for granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine by the Constantinople Patrairachate, which expressed "strong protest and deep indignation" over the appointment of Archbishop Daniel (Zelinsky) of Pamphilon and Bishop Hilarion (Rudnyk) of Edmonton as exarchs ...
On 18 February 2019, the ROCOR published on its official websites a letter by Archbishop Mark of the German diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia; the letter was addressed to the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops in Germany. In this letter, Mark declared that he writes the letter to "clarify" the position of his diocese "on the ...
Christianity in Russia is the most widely professed religion in the country. The largest tradition is the Russian Orthodox Church.According to official sources, there are 170 eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church, 145 of which are grouped in metropolitanates. [1]
On December 19, 2018, in Tula, the Appellate instance of the Arbitration Court on the claim of the Klintsу Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to withdraw from the ROAC community the Church of Elijah the Prophet, located in Trubchevsk, Bryansk Oblast. The modern building of the Church was built in 1845, and in 1890-1893 it was ...
Eparchies of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) as of a January 2014. Eparchies of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (and its predecessor Exarchate of Ukraine): [2] In May 2022 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) itself announced its separation from the Moscow Patriarchate and excluded ‘any provisions that at least somehow hinted at or indicated the ...
In 2019 there were more than 1,200 churches from different Christian denominations in Moscow.The majority of the population belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church, [1] which consequently has by far the largest number of churches; (1154 in 2017) compared to over 1600 before the 1917 revolution; much smaller numbers belong to various Eastern and Western denominations.