Russian Orthodox Church
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The Russian Orthodox Church, also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The primate of the ROC is the P
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia
Russian Orthodox monks defended the Trinity monastery against Polish troops during the Time of Troubles. Painting by Sergey Miloradovich.
An Old Believer Priest, Nikita Pustosviat, Disputing the Matters of Faith with Patriarch Joachim, painting by Vasily Perov
St. Sophia-Assumption Cathedral in Tobolsk
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
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Kirill or Cyril is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009.
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…some 15,000 churches had been re-opened or built by the end of his tenure, and the process of recovery and rebuilding has continued under his successor Patriarch Kirill. According to official figures, in 2016 the church had 174 dioceses, 361 bishops, and 34,764 parishes served by 39,800 clergy. There were 926 monasteries…
Kirill in 2025
Archbishop Kirill at a conference on nuclear weapons and disarmament in Amsterdam in 1981
Vladimir Putin, Metropolitan Kirill and Xenia Sheremeteva-Yusupova, October 2001
Kirill being presented with the patriarchal koukoulion during his enthronement