Definition of Russian Church. Meaning of Russian Church. Synonyms of Russian Church

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Definition of Russian Church

Russian Church
Russian Church Rus"sian Church The established church of the Russian empire. It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod. The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma.

Meaning of Russian Church from wikipedia

- also not be confused with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (or ROCOR, also known as the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad), headquartered in the...
- The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (Russian: Ру́сская Правосла́вная Це́рковь Заграни́цей, romanized: Rússkaya Pravoslávnaya Tsérkov Zagranítsey...
- Eastern Churches. Russian Catholics historically had their own episcopal hierarchy in the Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia and the Russian Catholic...
- Russian churches often have various recurrent elements in their architecture. The onion dome is for example a recurrent and important element in the architecture...
- by eight Russian Orthodox monks in Alaska, then part of Russian America, in 1794. This grew into a full diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church after the...
- the Russian Church, also known as Raskol (Russian: Раскол, pronounced [rɐˈskoɫ], meaning 'split' or 'schism'), was the splitting of the Russian Orthodox...
- Rus' Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, or ROCOR, is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox...
- Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia. The language appears also in the services of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside...
- Self-governing Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian church abroad) Serbian...
- The history of the Russian Orthodox Church is commonly traced back to the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus', established upon the Conversion of Volodimer...