The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, “the pearl” of the Russian church architecture, was founded in the first half of the 14th century (1337) by the monk Sergius of Radonezh, a great abbot of Russia and ...

Independence from Russian Orthodoxy could have serious geopolitical implications. The creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) on December 15, at a Unification Council in Kyiv attended by ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral ... population. The church's onion domes, bright ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church recently commended Vladimir Putin over his handling of church and state relations ...

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church has done its utmost to avoid the rupture of relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople but it was the only right decision ...