- britannica.com Philosophy & Religion Religious PlacesRussian Orthodox Church, one of the largest autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, Eastern Orthodox churches in the world.
- gotquestions.org Russian-Orthodox-Church.htmlLike other Orthodox churches, the Russian Orthodox Church is trinitarian, believes the Bible to be the Word of God, and teaches that Jesus is God the Son.
- 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.
- 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.
- tsarnicholas.org category/russian-orthodox-church/On 1st November 1981, he was canonized as a new martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).
- 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.
- 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.
- countrystudies.us russia/38.htmThe Russian Orthodox Church has a thousand-year history of strong political as well as spiritual influence over the inhabitants of the Russian state.
- 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.