The 1917–1918 Local Council of the Orthodox Church of Russia was the first Local Council of the Russian Church since the end of the 17th century. It opened on 15 August 1917 in the Assumption Cathedra

Imiaslavie, among critics also known as imyabozhie or imyabozhnichestvo, "deification of the name", and also referred to as onomatodoxy was a mystical-dogmatic movement in Russian Orthodoxy, the main