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RUSSIAN ORTHODOX
RELIGIONBy: Younjun Sung
History Founded by Apostle Andrew Developed in Kiev Kievan nobility and Greek/Byzantine
priests Princess Olga of Kiev Vladimir the Great Great Schism
Structure Second largest after Roman Catholic
Church among Christian churches Hierarchical structure
Parishes headed by priestEparchy governed by bishopCouncilsHoly SynodPatriarch of Moscow
Structure Cont’d Church & State
Byzantine emperorsCouncil of Ministers
to respond to emperorHoly Synod control of
educational establishments and judicial powers
Now secular, but maintains solidarity
Practice Liturgical worship Devotion to icons,
power of supernatural (reverence not directed to relics themselves)
Defining individual sacred places
Beliefs Personal experience of
truth Holy Scripture + Holy
Tradition Holy Trinity Predestination Salvation
Connections Pyotr Petrovitch – “..if I were told ‘love
thy neighbor’; what came of it?...love yourself before all men, for everything in the world rests on self-interest.” (150)
Social hierarchy Sonya “Raskol”