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The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million estimated adherents of the Eastern Orthodox...

Timeline of Events

1579

7.8.1579

''Our Lady of Kazan'', a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

1917

11.5.1917

St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1927

8.19.1927

Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.

2007

4.25.2007

Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.