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Russian Orthodox Church

autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church
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Summary

Russian Orthodox Church is a national Church[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of national church entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,813 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: World Council of Churches[3]
  • Religion or worldview: Eastern Orthodoxy[4]
  • Country: Russia[5]
  • Instance of: Eastern Orthodox patriarchate[6]
  • Official language: Church Slavonic[7], Novomoskovsk variety of the Church Slavonic language[8], Russian[9]
  • Founder: Andrew the Apostle[10], Photios I of Constantinople[11], Nicholas II of Constantinople[12], Vladimir the Great[13]
  • Headquarters location: Danilov Monastery[14]
  • Part of: Eastern Orthodox Church[15]
  • Commons category: Russian Orthodox Church[16]
  • Chairperson: Kirill I of Moscow[17]
  • Has part(s): Chinese Orthodox Church[18], Latvian Orthodox Church[19], Moldovan Orthodox Church[20], Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia[21], Ukrainian Orthodox Church[22], Estonian Christian Orthodox Church[23], Orthodox Church in Japan (Moscow Patriarchate)[24], Diocese of Berlin and Germany (Russian Orthodox Church)[25], Diocese of Budapest and Hungary[26], Diocese of Vienna and Austria[27], Eparchy of Argentina and South America (Moscow Patriarchate)[28], Belarusian Orthodox Church[29], Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe[30], Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia[31]
  • Inception: December 15, 1448[32]
  • Significant event: Raskol[33], 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism[34]
  • Separated from: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople[35]
  • Official website: http://www.patriarchia.ru/[36], http://www.patriarchia.ru/md/[37], http://www.patriarchia.ru/ua/[38], http://www.patriarchia.ru/gr/[39], http://www.patriarchia.ru/en/[40]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Russian Orthodox Church[41]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: Post-Soviet states[42], Russia[43]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: denomination=russian_orthodox[44]
  • Described by source: Meyer’s Universum, Vierter Band[45]
  • Subject named as: Russisch-orthodoxe Kirche[46]
  • Short name: РПЦ[47], ROC[48]

Why It Matters

Russian Orthodox Church has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 126 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

Related Entities

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Alexander Menshikov Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Anatoly Serdyukov Anna Pavlovna of Russia Anna Petrovna of Russia Boris Godunov Boris Gryzlov Boris Nemtsov Boris Yeltsin Catherine II of Russia Dmitry Peskov Ekaterina Ponamareva Evgeny Primakov Feodor I of Russia Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fyodor Ushakov Gennady Zyuganov Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia Gregory Potyomkin Grigory Yavlinsky Igor Sikorsky Kirill Leviathan

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . patriarchia.ru. Retrieved . patriarchia.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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