- The Synod, called the Council of a Hundred Chapters (Stoglav), triggered a re-vival movement in the Russian Orthodox Church.
- Each chapel has its own dome. See our article on the exterior features of a Russian Orthodox church.
- It 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.
- On 1st November 1981, he was canonized as a new martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).
- 1921: The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia was formed. 1922-1946: The Renovationist movement in the church took place.
- Just like a diocese of a Western Church, the geographic divisions of the Russian Orthodox Church are known as eparchies.
- As a state department the Russian Orthodox Church lost the right to plead with the Tsar on behalf of the poor and dispossessed.
- 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 Russian Orthodox Church has a thousand-year history of strong political as well as spiritual influence over the inhabitants of the Russian state.