- ...in 2009 by the Synod of Bishops, Patriarch Kirill has presided over a period of dynamic change and development in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).
- World War II forced Stalin to mobilize all the national resources for defense, including the Russian Orthodox Church as the people's moral force.
- On May 12, 2006, the general congress of the ROCOR confirmed its willingness to reunite with the Russian Orthodox Church. The latter hailed this resolution as
- The holy synod, chaired by the patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, is the governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church between bishops' councils.
- The Synod, called the Council of a Hundred Chapters (Stoglav), triggered a re-vival movement in the Russian Orthodox Church.
- The Russian Orthodox Church and Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches are integral components of Christian faith.
- Due to this canonical disagreement it is disputed which church has been the legitimate successor to the Russian Orthodox Church that had existed before 1925.
- The most typical and most recognizable element of Orthodox churches is the dome, crowned with the eight-pointed Orthodox cross .
- Just like a diocese of a Western Church, the geographic divisions of the Russian Orthodox Church are known as eparchies.
