Russian Orthodoxy
Russian Orthodoxy (Russian: Русское православие) is a term referring to the body of several Churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, whose liturgy is or was traditionally conducted in Church Slavonic language.
Church bodies
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
- Belarusian Orthodox Church
- Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate
- Latvian Orthodox Church
- Moldovan Orthodox Church (with strong influence of Romanian Orthodoxy)
- Orthodox Church of China
- Orthodox Church of Japan
- Authocephal Churches who received autocephy from Russian Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Church of America (except Romanian, Blulgarian and Albanin ethnical diocceses)
- Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
- Polish Orthodox Church
- Parts of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which had historically been parts of the Russian Church
- Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (with strong influence of Greek Orthodoxy)
- Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe
- Finnish Orthodox Church
- Old Believers
- a number of small Non-canonical church bodies, schismed from the Russian Orthodox Church
See also
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