Russian Orthodoxy

Russian Orthodoxy (Russian: Русское православие) is the body of several Churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, whose liturgy is or was traditionally conducted in Church Slavonic language. Russian Orthodoxy is a part of Eastern Orthodoxy.

Trinity by Andrey Rublev

Church bodies

• Russian Orthodox Church
  • Autonomous Churches who still and recognizably (and couple semi-unrecognized) belong to the Russian Orthodox Church
    • Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
    • Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
    • Belarusian Orthodox Church
    • Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate (unrecognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and prefer Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church as the canonical church under their authority in Estonia)
    • Latvian Orthodox Church
    • Moldovan Orthodox Church (with a strong influence of Romanian Orthodoxy)
    • Orthodox Church of China
    • Orthodox Church of Japan
  • Exarchates who either is recognized or not has belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church
    • Belarusian Orthodox Church (Belarusian Exarchate)
    • Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe
    • Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia
    • Russian Exarchate of North America (historical)
• Authocephal Churches who received autocephaly from Russian Orthodox Church
  • Orthodox Church in America (except Romanian, Bulgarian and Albanian ethnical dioceses)
  • 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 (until 2019)
  • Finnish Orthodox Church
• Old Believers
  • Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
  • Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church
  • Russian Old-Orthodox Church
  • Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church
  • Edinoverie
• A number of small Non-canonical church bodies, schism from the Russian Orthodox Church and its autonomous churches over personal reasons
  • Russian True Orthodox Church
  • Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
  • Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (originally split from the Ukraine Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate in 1994, but until 2018 as they merged into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church)

See also

• Russian Orthodox Church in America
• Orthodoxy
• Greek Orthodoxy
• History of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Literature

• Русское православие: вехи истории / Науч. ред. А. И. Клибанов. — М.: Политиздат, 1989. — 719 с. — 200 000 экз. — ISBN 5-250-00246-3.
• Гордиенко Н. С. Содержание и объём понятия «русское православие» // Вестник Ленинградского государственного университета им. А. С. Пушкина. — 2009. — № 2. — С. 166—175.
• Лексин В. Н. Русское православие сегодня // Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право. — 2018. — № 4. — doi:10.23932/2542-0240-2018-11-4-65-82.