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."
Source A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian OrthodoxyNathaniel Davis
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."
Source Andrei Rublev (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
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..."
Source Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, Section X: Personal, Family and Public Morality (old.mospat.ru)the holders' own account
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."
Source Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, Section XII.9: Problems of Bioethics (old.mospat.ru)the holders' own account
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..."
Source Blanco Monks, Church Settle Sex Abuse CaseMolly Bloom
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."
Source Blanco Monks, Church Settle Sex Abuse CaseMolly Bloom
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."
Source Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New RussiaJohn Garrard and Carol Garrard
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..."
Source Georgian Orthodox Church (Wikipedia)
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..."
Source Rublev's Trinity Icon Returns to Its Historical Home for Good (OrthoChristian.com)OrthoChristian.com editorial staff
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..."
Source How Much Is the Russian Orthodox Church Worth? (Meduza, 2016)Svetlana Reiter, Anastasia Napalkova and Ivan Golunov (RBC investigation, reported by Meduza)
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..."
Source Composer Biographies (Britannica, Wikipedia and Publisher Program Notes, Compiled 2026)Compiled from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia and publisher concert-program notes
Moscow, Cities 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..."
Source Rublev's Trinity Icon Returns to Its Historical Home for Good (OrthoChristian.com)OrthoChristian.com editorial staff
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..."
Source Russian Church Has 180 Million Faithful; 36,000 Churches; 1,000 Monasteries; 56 Seminaries, Says Patriarch Kirill
The patriarchate was abolished in 1721 and the church governed by a synod under a lay procurator until the council of 1917 restored it.
Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)
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..."
Source Russian Orthodox Church, Synodal Period and Restoration (Wikipedia)
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."
Source The Russian Church under the Soviet Regime, 1917-1982Dimitry V. Pospielovsky
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.
Source The Russian Church under the Soviet Regime, 1917-1982Dimitry V. Pospielovsky
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..."
Source The Income of the Russian Orthodox ChurchSergei Chapnin
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."
Source The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Robert O. Crummey
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..."
Source The New Delhi Report: The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches, 1961World Council of Churches, edited by W. A. Visser 't Hooft
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..."
Source Ukraine Adopts 'Historic' Law to Ban Moscow-Linked Orthodox Church (Al Jazeera)
Holds the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, the oldest surviving Orthodox church building in Russia, returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1991.
Source A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian OrthodoxyNathaniel Davis
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."
Source Where Does the Russian Orthodox Church Get Its Money From? (Russia Beyond, 2016)Anna Kuchma