russian church

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Definition of russian church in English English dictionary

It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod

The established church of the Russian empire

The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma

Related Terms

Russian Orthodox Church

Any of a number of organizations based primarily in Russia and affiliated with the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christianity

Russian Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church that is under the leadership of the patriarch of Russia and has autonomous branches in other countries. the main religious group of Russia. It is a Christian church that began in the 11th century by separating from the Catholic Church. The Orthodox Church has very complicated religious ceremonies in which the words are mostly sung rather than spoken, and the it is closely related to the Greek Orthodox Church. Orthodox. Eastern Orthodox church of Russia, its de facto national church. In 988 Prince Vladimir of Kiev (later St. Vladimir) embraced Byzantine Orthodoxy and ordered the baptism of his population. By the 14th century, the metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia (head of the Russian church) was residing in Moscow; dissatisfied western Russian principalities obtained temporary separate metropolitans, but authority was later recentralized under Moscow. In the 15th century the church, rejecting Metropolitan Isidore's acceptance of union with the Western church (see Council of Ferrara-Florence), appointed their own independent metropolitan. Moscow saw itself as the "third Rome" and the last bulwark of true Orthodoxy; in 1589 the head of the Russian church obtained the title patriarch, putting him on a level with the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. The reforms of Nikon caused a schism within the church (see Old Believers), and Peter I abolished the patriarchate in 1721, making church administration a department of the state. The patriarchate was reestablished in 1917, two months before the Bolshevik revolution, but under the soviets the church was deprived of its legal rights and practically suppressed. It saw a great resurgence following the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). The Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S. became independent from Moscow in 1970

russian orthodox church

an independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia

Hyphenation

Rus·sian church

Turkish pronunciation

rʌşın çırç

Pronunciation

/ˈrəsʜən ˈʧərʧ/ /ˈrʌʃən ˈʧɜrʧ/