Russian Orthodox Church

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "government archives to trace the Russian Orthodox Church from near institutional extinction in the 1930s through its wartime revival and into the post Soviet period."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "painter, his 1988 canonization by the Russian Orthodox Church, and his veneration with multiple feast days in the Eastern Orthodox calendar."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "the Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the church's official governing statement on social and personal morality, adopted by the Jubilee Bishops' Council, 13 to 16 August..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "the Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, adopted by the Jubilee Bishops' Council, 13 to 16 August 2000."

This source names Russian Orthodox directly: "against the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), monastery founder Samuel Greene Jr., and a monastery monk, over sexual abuse Wright alleged occurred at Christ of the Hills Monastery..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "Texas, a monastery affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) from 1991 until ROCOR severed ties amid the allegations in 1999."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "suppression of religion, and the Russian Orthodox Church rebuilt its institutional standing within a single generation, chiefly under Patriarch Aleksy the Second."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "that autocephaly was abolished by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1811, restored de facto in 1917 amid the collapse of the Russian Empire, recognized de jure by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1943..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "The most important monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, founded around 1337 to 1340 by the monk Sergius of Radonezh at Sergiev Posad, north of Moscow, and raised to the rank of lavra, the..."

This source names Russian Orthodox directly: "Napalkova and Ivan Golunov into the Russian Orthodox Church's commercial income, finding a 2014 untaxed profit figure but no total wealth figure, and stating that reliable data on how the Church..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "In 1977 he converted to Orthodox Christianity, joining the Russian Orthodox Church in Britain, a step that reshaped nearly everything he wrote afterward; he described his own music as an attempt to..."

Moscow is the seat of the patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "A 2024 report on OrthoChristian.com, a Russian Orthodox Church affiliated news site, on the icon's permanent return to the Holy Trinity-St Sergius Lavra on the feast of Pentecost 2024, after..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "30, 2017, in which he stated that the Russian Orthodox Church numbers 180 million faithful throughout the world, alongside 36,000 churches, 1,000 monasteries and 56 seminaries, and that about 75..."

The patriarchate was abolished in 1721 and the church governed by a synod under a lay procurator until the council of 1917 restored it.

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Russian Orthodox Church, read directly for this pass, which states Peter the Great replaced the Patriarch with the Most Holy Synod in 1721 following Patriarch Adrian's..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "Lenin's early 1918 decree stripped the Russian Orthodox Church of legal standing and property, opening seventy years of Soviet persecution."

The Russian Orthodox Church lost almost all its parishes by 1939, was restored under state supervision in 1943, and lost half the recovered ones again after 1959.

This source names Russian Orthodox directly: "by Sergei Chapnin analyzing how the Russian Orthodox Church's parishes actually raise money, direct donation, candle and prayer-list sales, and per-service treby fees chief among them, and quoting..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "the seventeenth century schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, examining how the community organized itself and negotiated survival under an often hostile Russian state."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "from behind the Iron Curtain: the Russian Orthodox Church, together with the Orthodox churches of Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, joined at this assembly, alongside nearly every other Orthodox body..."

This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "over its historical ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, and President Zelensky's signature of the bill into law on Ukraine's Independence Day, giving Moscow Patriarchate parishes nine months to..."

Holds the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, the oldest surviving Orthodox church building in Russia, returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1991.

This source names Russian Orthodox directly: "Mitrokhin's unofficial estimate of the Russian Orthodox Church's total annual income in the 2000s, offered in the absence of any published accounts from the Church itself."

The largest of the national Eastern Orthodox churches.

The Moscow Patriarchate rejects Constantinople's expansive reading of its primacy as amounting to a Constantinopolitan papacy, insisting autocephaly requires pan-Orthodox consent.

The Moscow Patriarchate broke communion with Constantinople in October 2018 and disputes the Tomos as uncanonical, holding Ukraine to be its own canonical territory since 1686.

The Russian church is governed by its own patriarch and holy synod and holds that no bishop has jurisdiction outside his own church.

Moscow declined the invitation to Amsterdam, and the conference of Orthodox churches it convened in the same year set itself against the ecumenical movement. The Russian church joined the council only in 1961.

Moscow did not attend and does not recognise the meeting as a pan Orthodox council, holding that a council from which four churches were absent cannot bind the Orthodox world.

Received through Church Slavonic with its eight tones intact, then developed away into znamenny and later into four-part harmony, so what a Russian church sings is Byzantine in structure and not in sound.

The Moscow patriarchate treats the monastery as standing within its canonical territory, a claim contested both by the grant of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2019 and by the Ukrainian state's management of the site.

Held in the Russian monasteries, and the ordinary route by which a monastic community has a priest.

The Russian icon tradition carries its own schools and its own canon of wonderworking images, several of which are national rather than local.

Carried into Russian practice through the Slavonic Philokalia and through the elders of Optina.

The knotted prayer rope is given at monastic tonsure and is carried very widely by lay Russian Orthodox Christians as well.

Held in the Russian hierarchy, where metropolitans head the most senior sees.

The monastery of Saint Panteleimon is the Russian house among the twenty, and Russian pilgrimage and patronage to it have been substantial since the nineteenth century.

Sung in Slavonic at the midnight procession and repeated through Bright Week.

The Moscow patriarchate was established in 1589, abolished by Peter the Great and restored in 1917, and the office is the head of the largest of the Orthodox churches.

The Slavonic and later Russian versions carried the collection into Russian piety, where it stands behind the elder tradition and the prayer of the heart as ordinary practice.

The Russian painter's manuals are the parallel and separate tradition, prescribing the same discipline in a different idiom and for a different hand.

The chronicle carries the account of the baptism of Rus that the Russian church takes as the beginning of its own history.

The starets is the elder to whom people come for spiritual direction, and the office rests on recognised discernment rather than on ordination or rank. It is the most distinctive feature of Russian spiritual life.

The Russian church was governed by a holy synod without a patriarch from 1721 until 1917, and its synod remains its standing governing body under the patriarch.

Sung in Slavonic as the thanksgiving moleben, at the end of a war, at an anniversary and at the close of the civil year.

The Russian church receives Chalcedon as the fourth of the seven councils.

The Trullan canons are part of the received canonical inheritance of the Russian church.

Received as the seventh council, and the theology of the icon it defends is central to Russian devotional and artistic life.

The church's own unison chant, written in hook neumes, largely pushed out of parish singing in the eighteenth century by harmonised part music and kept alive in the monasteries.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Almsgiving is bound closely to the fasting seasons, what is not spent on food being given away.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Holy Unction is one of the seven mysteries and is administered to the living faithful in general, most publicly on Holy Wednesday, and not to the dying alone.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Baptism, chrismation and first communion are given together in one rite, so the baptismal life begins in infancy and is not deferred to an age of discretion.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Orthodoxy ordains married men to the priesthood but requires that bishops be monks, so celibacy shapes the episcopate rather than the parish; Mount Athos remains the tradition's monastic centre.

Kept on January 7 of the civil calendar, the Russian Church retaining the Julian reckoning for the fixed feasts as well as for Pascha.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The churching of a mother and the presentation of a child on the fortieth day is kept as a living rite here, not as a survival.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Orthodox confess standing beside the priest before an icon rather than through a grille, the priest understood as a witness rather than a judge, and confession is ordinarily expected before receiving communion.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Prayers of exorcism are read over every candidate as a fixed part of the baptismal service, before the renunciation and the anointing.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Orthodox fasting means abstinence rather than hunger: no meat, dairy, eggs, fish with backbones, wine or oil on the strictest days, kept through Great Lent and three further fasting seasons and on most Wednesdays and Fridays, which is roughly half the year.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The washing of feet is performed on Holy Thursday by a bishop, the Niptir, in the cathedral and in the great monasteries.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Jesus Prayer belongs to Orthodoxy, defended by Gregory Palamas against the charge that its practitioners claimed to see God's essence; monks and increasingly laypeople repeat it alone on a knotted woollen cord, and teachers warn against the breathing technique without direction.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Infants are baptised, chrismated and communicated in one rite, so initiation is complete before the child can speak.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Communion is given in both kinds together, the consecrated bread having been placed in the chalice and administered to each communicant from a spoon. The result is the same as intinction and the manner is not, and the practice here is ancient rather than adopted for convenience.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The marriage service is the Crowning, and the priest is the minister of the sacrament rather than a witness to a contract the couple make, which is the opposite of the Roman analysis.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Tonsure is the rite of monastic profession itself, performed in degrees, and is not a preliminary to it.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Ninth Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and precedes Vespers, so that the liturgical day turns on it.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian tradition, with otpevanie as the common name for it.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Radonitsa at the graves is a Russian and wider Slavic observance.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The First Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion, appended to Matins, and was never suppressed here as Prime was in the Roman rite.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Built as a Russian Orthodox cathedral commemorating the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan under Ivan IV.

Founder of the Trinity Sergius Lavra, the effective spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Orthodox perform the same rites but have never treated seven as a fixed count, calling them mysteries; chrismation follows infant baptism at once and communion is given to infants from then on, where the West defers both.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Sixth Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and is joined to the Third in ordinary parish use.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Third Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and carries the commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit.

The rioting crowds in Odessa were overwhelmingly Russian Orthodox Christian by ordinary demographic fact, and the pogrom grew out of a wave of nationalist counter-mobilization against the revolutionary unrest of 1905, but no church authority ordered or endorsed the violence; this edge connects that shared communal identity to the event without asserting it as the Russian Orthodox Church's own position.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The anaphoras of St John Chrysostom and St Basil the Great are used according to a fixed calendar, the longer Basil on ten days of the year.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The epiclesis follows the institution narrative and is held to be the moment of consecration, which is the central Eastern difference from Western eucharistic theology.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Lamb is broken into four particles marked IC XC NI KA, one placed in the chalice, one for the clergy and two for the communion of the people.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Orthodox call it the Divine Liturgy, most often that of John Chrysostom, sung throughout behind an icon screen, with leavened bread and communion given in both kinds from a spoon after preparation by fasting and confession.

Patriarch Nikon's 1652-1666 reforms conforming Russian liturgical practice to contemporary Greek usage were affirmed as binding by the Moscow councils of 1666-1667 and remain normative Russian Orthodox practice.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The institution narrative is recited within the anaphora, but the consecration is not located in it.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Orthodoxy defended images at the seventh council and keeps them central: an icon is kissed on entering, censed, carried in procession, laid on a stand for the feast of the day, and kept in a corner of the home. It is written to a received pattern rather than invented, and generally unsigned.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Orthodox honour Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer, and glorify saints by decision of a synod rather than through a Roman-style process; they reject the Immaculate Conception as answering a doctrine of original sin they do not hold, while keeping the Dormition.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The Byzantine churches reserve the Lamb through the year for it.

The Russian Orthodox Church conducts its liturgy in Church Slavonic, a direct descendant of Old Church Slavonic.