The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Московский Патриархат, Moskovskiy Patriarkhat), also known in English as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, in communion with other Eastern Ortho...
largest autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, Eastern Orthodox church in the world. Its membership is estimated at more than 85 million.[42 related articles]
Another name for the Orthodox Church. ...
an independent church within the Eastern Orthodox Church; ruled by a governing synod headed by a government minister
[n] - independent with its own Patriarch of Moscow
noun an independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia
Another name for the Orthodox Church
the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917. Also called