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A number of ROCOR clergy and parishioners who opposed to reunification with the Moscow Patriarchate, including the suspended Bishop Varnava (Prokofieff) of Cannes, formed a new church administration around Metropolitan Vitaly, renaming themselves as the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile (ROCiE) then to "Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ...
Act of Canonical Communion text—official English translation (ROCOR Website) The Act of Canonical Communion is Signed Article and photos (www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws) Photo of signing Metropolitan Laurus (left) and Patriarch Alexei (right) Metropolitan Laurus and Patriarch Alexei making commemorations together during the Divine Liturgy
The ROC should also not be confused with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (or ROCOR, also known as the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad), headquartered in the United States. The ROCOR was instituted in the 1920s by Russian communities outside the Soviet Union , which had refused to recognise the authority of the Moscow Patriarchate ...
The First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, or Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, is the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, a semi-autonomous Church under the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). [1] The position of First Hierarch is currently occupied by Nicholas (Olhovsky).
Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Holy Royal Martyrs in Chiswick, London.. The Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe (Russian: Лондонская и Западно-Европейская епархия, romanized: Londonskaya i Zapadno-Yevropyeyskaya yeparkhiya) is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), encompassing all ...
Thus, the ROFC began to create its canonical structures on the territory of the foreign dioceses of the ROCOR. In connection with the adoption of the law "On Freedom of Conscience and on Religious Associations", the Suzdal Synod was re—registered in October 1998, adopting a new official name - the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC).
St. Simeon of the Wonderful Mountain Church, Dresden St. Alexis Memorial Church to the Russian Honour, Leipzig. In the 18th and 19th centuries Eastern Orthodox parishes and churches on the territory of Germany were established mainly near Russian diplomatic offices and areas with significant number of Russians foreign nationals, especially in spa cities.
Metropolitan Nicholas (born Nikolay Alexandrovich Olhovsky, [a] 17 December 1974) is the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York since 14 September 2022. [1]