- britannica.com Philosophy & Religion Religious PlacesRussian Orthodox Church, one of the largest autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, Eastern Orthodox churches in the world.
- spartacus-educational.com RUSchurch.htmAs a state department the Russian Orthodox Church lost the right to plead with the Tsar on behalf of the poor and dispossessed.
- spiritualculture.org russian-orthodox-church/The Russian Orthodox Church is one of the largest and oldest Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches in the world.
- wrldrels.org 2019/11/24/russian-orthodox-church/1921: The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia was formed. 1922-1946: The Renovationist movement in the church took place.
- hierarchystructure.com russian-orthodox-church-…Just like a diocese of a Western Church, the geographic divisions of the Russian Orthodox Church are known as eparchies.
- nelmitravel.com Inside a Russian Orthodox Church in and what to expectIt is different in the Russian Orthodox Church. Here they believe that everything that you receive is from God, even the right to enter the sacred area of the Church.
- russian-crafts.com russiantraditions/orthodox-…Liberating itself from the invaders, the Russian state gathered strength and so did the Russian Orthodox Church.
- mospat.ru en/news/The Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relations.
- oikoumene.org member-churches/russian-orthodox-…The holy synod, chaired by the patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, is the governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church between bishops' councils.