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For Russian members of any of the various autocephalous churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church, see Category:Eastern Orthodox Christians from Russia. Members of the Russian Orthodox Church. Not all members of the Russian Orthodox Church are of Russian nationality.
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.
In the United States there are numerous notable Russian Orthodox churches, including many that were listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as part of one study. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Alaska, the Russian America community includes more than 20,000 members of the Russian Orthodox church.
The Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is the name of the group of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in America that are under the canonical authority of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970 ...
The real "head" of the Synod and most important clerical figure was the Primus or Prime member, its legal chairman, always a Metropolitan or an Archbishop. The first Primus was the Metropolitan Stephen Yavorsky , who had been the administrator of the Patriarchate of Moscow for over twenty years (1700-1721).
"The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia is an indissoluble part of the Russian Orthodox Church, and for the time until the extermination in Russia of the atheist government, is self-governing on conciliar principles in accordance with the resolution of the Patriarch, the Most Holy Synod, and the Highest Church Council [Sobor] of the Russian ...
Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Caribbean; Russian Orthodox Church. Russian Orthodox Church in Canada; Russian Orthodox Church in the USA [1] Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia; Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada; Romanian Orthodox Church
John (Bērziņš), Bishop of Caracas and South America Irenei (Steenberg), Bishop of London and Western Europe Theodosius (Ivashchenko), Bishop of Seattle, vicar of the Western American Diocese