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This list of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church includes only people canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church, or the preceding Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'. Saints are sorted by their first names. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow canonised a total of 39 saints at two Church councils held in 1547 and 1549, and later added 8 more ...
Olga is venerated as saint in East Slavic-speaking countries where churches uses the Byzantine Rite: Eastern Orthodox Church (especially in Russian Orthodox Church), Greek Catholic Church (especially in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), in churches with Byzantine Rite Lutheranism, [44] and among Western Catholics in Russia. [45]
The Orthodox Church does not require the manifestation of miracles, as it does in Roman Catholicism; what is required is evidence of a virtuous life and prior local veneration of the saint. [ 1 ] Because the Church shows no true distinction between the living and the dead, as the saints are considered to be alive in heaven , saints are referred ...
Boris and Gleb, first saints canonised in Kievan Rus'. Canonization is usually divided into two categories: local and church-wide. The church-wide canonization is always performed by the highest church organ, that is the Metropolitan or Patriarch above the Council of Eparchs, the chief member above the Most Holy Synod in the synodal period, or the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia above ...
Bartholomew, son of boyars; patron saint of Russia, spiritual and monastic reformer; became hermit and built the Holy Trinity Church amidst wood in Makovets; ate only prosphora, most of it gave to bears; gradually more henochs came to him, and so the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius was founded, the "Heart of Russia"; blessed Dmitry Donskoy for the ...
Emmelia—also known as Emilia or Emily—is venerated as a saint in both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church [4] and is said to have died on 30 May 375. [2] However, she is not the only woman in her family to be venerated as a saint.
The Russian Orthodox church was drastically weakened in May 1922, when the Renovated (Living) Church, a reformist movement backed by the Soviet secret police, broke away from Patriarch Tikhon (also see the Josephites and the Russian True Orthodox Church), a move that caused division among clergy and faithful that persisted until 1946.
The Russian Greek Catholic Church [a] or Russian Byzantine Catholic Church [1] is a sui iuris Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Church of the worldwide Catholic Church. [2] Historically, it represents both a movement away from the control of the Church by the State and towards the reunion of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church.