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In modern Russia, "all kinds of occult, Pagan and pseudo-Christian faiths are widespread". Some of them are "disciplined organisations with a well-defined membership". [67] The scholars of religion Sergei Filatov and Roman Lunkin, estimated in the mid-2000s that well-organised new religious movements had about 300,000 members.
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 ]
In early February 1918, the Bolshevik-controlled government of Soviet Russia enacted the Decree on separation of church from state and school from church that proclaimed separation of church and state in Russia, freedom to "profess any religion or profess none", deprived religious organisations of the right to own any property and legal status ...
Islam is a major religious minority in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe. [2] According to the US Department of State in 2017, [3] Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population.
In 1914 in Russia, there were 55,173 Russian Orthodox churches and 29,593 chapels, 112,629 priests and deacons, 550 monasteries and 475 convents with a total of 95,259 monks and nuns. [citation needed] The year 1917 was a major turning point for the history of Russia, and also the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Trinity Sunday in Russia; the Russian Orthodox Church has experienced a great revival since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a country that had a policy of state atheism. Russia's largest religion is Christianity—It has the world's largest Orthodox population.
The first Catholic diocese established in Russia was the Roman Catholic Diocese of Smolensk in 1636. Smolensk covered all of Russia until the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mohilev was established by Catherine the Great in 1772 without Papal authority, but it was approved by Pope Pius VI in 1783. In 1798 the Archdiocese of Mohilev was raised to ...