THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...

The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye ... at Kolomenskoye represents an imaginative and innovative advance in Russian Orthodox Church design, which ...

Although some Russian Orthodox priests have spoken out against “war liturgies,” they don’t all hold the same positions. Some ...

(RNS) — Lawmakers in Estonia’s Parliament are debating a draft bill that would effectively require the Estonian Orthodox Church of ... the area during the Russian Imperial (1710 to 1917 ...

MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church has recognized Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as a schismatic based on the Orthodox Church canons, Metropolitan Hilarion ...

Russian Orthodoxy was promoted and Catholic monasteries were closed. Often, the Orthodox Church would take over former Catholic Churches. Until 1891 Finland had its own parliament, laws and ...