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Diocese of Baku and Azerbaijan ( Russian: Бакинская и Азербайджанская епархия, Azerbaijani: Bakı və Azərbaycan yeparxiyası) is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Azerbaijan. Majority of its members are ethnic Russians of Azerbaijan. Entire territory of Azerbaijan is under ecclesiastical jurisdiction ...
The Schism of the Russian Church, also known as Raskol ( Russian: раскол, pronounced [rɐˈskoɫ], meaning "split" or "schism"), was the splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement in the mid-17th century. It was triggered by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in 1653, which aimed to ...
e. The Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is the name of the group of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in America that are under the canonical authority of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970.
The Russian True Orthodox Church ( RTOC, Russian: Российская истинно православная церковь, РИПЦ), also called lazarites [1] (after Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko)) or tikhonites (after Archbishop Tikhon (Pasechnik) ), [2] [a] is an independent Russian Orthodox church professing True Orthodoxy. It was formed ...
Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Holy Royal Martyrs in Chiswick, London.. The Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe (Russian: Лондонская и Западно-Европейская епархия, romanized: Londonskaya i Zapadno-Yevropyeyskaya yeparkhiya) is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), encompassing all ...
Coordinates: 25°21′00″N 55°24′15″E. St. Philip the Apostle Russian Orthodox Church is a Russian Orthodox Church located in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The church is the biggest church in the country, with an area of 1,800 square metres (19,000 sq ft) [1] capacity of 20,000 worshippers. The church opened on Saturday August 13, 2011.
The Alexander Nevsky Church ( Danish: Skt. Aleksander Nevskij Kirke) is the only Russian Orthodox church in Copenhagen. [1] It was built by the Russian Government between 1881 and 1883, prompted by Princess Dagmar of Denmark's marriage to Alexander Alexandrovich on 9 November 1866 and their later ascent to the Russian throne as Tsar Alexander ...