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  • The Russian Orthodox Church and Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches are integral components of Christian faith.
  • The two churches reconciled on 17 May 2007; the ROCOR is now a self-governing part of the Russian Orthodox Church. History[edit].
  • Russian Orthodox Church, one of the largest autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, Eastern Orthodox churches in the world.
  • 1811: The Georgian Orthodox Church was included into the Russian Church as an Exarchate. 1917: The Patriarchate was reinstated.
  • Russia - The Russian Orthodox Church. Despite official repression in the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years, religious activity persisted.
  • After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Russian Orthodox Church was reborn and with it the persecution of believers, common in the Soviet times, ended.
  • But then, it suffered great repression when Nikita Khrushchev was the leader in the 1960s. The Russian Orthodox Church regained its strength in the 1980s.
  • Liberating itself from the invaders, the Russian state gathered strength and so did the Russian Orthodox Church.
  • The Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church are called to serve as a guide for the Synodal institutions, dioceses, monasteries...
  • 3) The Russian Orthodox church, Serbian, Greek, OCA, Antiochian, etc all differ mainly in language. Our theology and beliefs are the same.
  • The church was maintained with the funds of the imperial family and with donations; today, the church is administered by the Russian Orthodox Church and...
  • (Near Fountain and Western) Los Angeles, California 90027. A Parish of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
  • While in 1917, the Russian Orthodox Church had 77,767 churches (parishes and monasteries), in the late 1970s there were only about 6,800.