Russian Orthodox Church
A living tradition within Eastern Orthodoxy. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Russian Orthodox Church is a living tradition within Eastern Orthodoxy. Also written Moscow Patriarchate.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Autocephalous church of Russia; Britannica traces its independent development from 1448. The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church broke communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 15 October 2018 over the Ukrainian question.
Continue reading this article
Sign in free to read in full. Become a member to join the discussion without limits.
Sign in free to read- ✓Read every article
- ✓Comment and reply (up to 100 words, 10/month)
- ✓Browse the community
- ✓Reader badge
Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Russian Orthodox Church.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-russian-orthodox-church.
@misc{johnshaqi-sect-russian-orthodox-church-en,
author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Russian Orthodox Church},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-russian-orthodox-church},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.