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  2. Russian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Московский патриархат, Moskovskiy patriarkhat), [12] is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

  3. History of the Russian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Russian Orthodox Church begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988 during the reign of Vladimir the Great. [1] [2] In the following centuries, Kiev and later other cities, including Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Suzdal and Vladimir, became important regional centers of Christian spirituality and culture. [1]

  4. Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. Second-largest Christian church This article is about the Eastern Orthodox Church as an institution. For its religion, doctrine and tradition, see Eastern Orthodoxy. For other uses of "Orthodox Church", see Orthodox Church (disambiguation). For other uses of "Greek Orthodox", see Greek ...

  5. Religion in Russia - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Orthodox Church, though its influence is thin in some parts of Siberia and southern Russia, where there has been a perceptible revival of pre-Christian religion, [6] acts as the de facto, if not de jure, privileged religion of the state, claiming the right to decide which other religions or denominations are to be granted the right ...

  6. Christianity in Russia - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.

  8. List of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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  9. Eastern Orthodoxy - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Orthodox Christian life is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person, ... Eastern Orthodoxy is the predominant religion in Russia (77%), ...