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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]
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. According to the Russian law, any religious organisation may be recognised as "traditional", if it was already in existence before 1982, and each newly founded religious group has to provide its credentials and re-register yearly for fifteen years, and, in the meantime until eventual recognition, stay without rights.
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Московский патриархат, Moskovskiy patriarkhat), [12] is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church.It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... Russia, and the Philippines. [12] Christianity in multiple ... The number of people who actually believe in God or ...
The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church: Politics, Culture and Greater Russia (2014) Strickland, John. The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism Before the Revolution (2013) Shubin, Daniel H. History of Russian Christianity, in 4 volumes: ISBN 978-1365407925; ISBN 978-1365408021; ISBN 978-1365408311; ISBN 978-1365408458
CNN spoke to Russians who have fled the country since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. All were united in their unfavorable opinion of Putin, but divided on whether it’s worth voting.
The Soviet regime had an ostensible commitment to the complete annihilation of religious institutions and ideas. [11] Communist ideology could not coexist with the continued influence of religion even as an independent institutional entity, so "Lenin demanded that communist propaganda must employ militancy and irreconcilability towards all forms of idealism and religion", and that was called ...