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The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Russian: Ру́сская Правосла́вная Це́рковь Заграни́цей, Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov' Zagranitsey), also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, or ROCOR) is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church. Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

It was formed as a jurisdiction of Eastern Orthodoxy as a response against the policy of Bolsheviks with respect to religion in the Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and separated from the Russian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in 1927 after an imprisoned Patriarch Sergius I of Moscow pledged the church’s qualified loyalty to the Bolshevik state. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia officially signed the Act of Canonical Communion with the Moscow Patriarchate on May 17, 2007 reunifying the churches. Critics of the reunification argue that the issue of KGB infiltration of the church hierarchy has not been addressed by the Russian Orthodox Church.^[1] ... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patriarch Sergius I (Russian: Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³Ð¸Ð¹ I; born Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky (Ð˜Ð²Ð°Ð½ ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¡Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ñ€Ð¾Ð´ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹), January 11, 1867â€”May 15, 1944) was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, from September 8, 1943 until his death. ... The Act of Canonical Communion with the Moscow Patriarchate reunited the two branches of the Russian Orthodox Church: the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and the Moscow Patriarchate. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ... Note: This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. ...

The Church has over 400 parishes worldwide, and an estimated membership of over 400,000 people.^[1] Within the ROCOR there are 13 hierarchs, and also 20 monasteries and nunneries in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom and South America.^[2]

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Formation and early years

In 1920 near the end of the Russian Civil War, after the White Russian Army under Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak was crushed and the Bolsheviks occupied Siberia, a mass exodus of Russian refugees moved into Manchuria. Over ninety thousand refugees settled in Harbin, Shanghai, Dairen, Hailar and the smaller towns along the Chinese branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway within three years. Lacking adequate lodgings or employment many migrated to America, Europe or Australia.^[3] 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Combatants Red Army Latvian Riflemen White Army (Monarchists) Ukrainian Peoples Republic Green Army (Cossacks) Black Army (Anarchists) Blue Army (Peasants) Czechoslovak Legion Allied intervention Other anti-Bolshevik forces Commanders Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Sergei Kamenev, Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Frunze Alexander Antonov, Anton Denikin, Alexander Kolchak, Lavr Kornilov, Pyotr Wrangel... White Army redirects here. ... Admiral Kolchak Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak (ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ€ Ð’Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐšÐ¾Ð»Ñ‡Ð°Ðº in Russian) (November 4 (November 16 NS), 1874 â€“ February 7, 1920) was a Russian naval commander and later head of part of the anti-Bolshevik White forces during the Russian Civil War. ... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... Siberian Federal District (darker red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) arctic northeast Siberia Udachnaya pipe Siberia (Russian: , Sibir; Tatar: ) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia and comprising a large part of the Euro-Asian Steppe. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Harbin on a map of China For other meanings of Harbin, see Harbin (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Trans-Siberian line in red; Baikal Amur Mainline in green. ...

Also in 1920 the Soviet government revealed that it was hostile to the Russian Orthodox Church. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, issued an ukase (decree) that all Orthodox Christians currently under the authority and protection of his Patriarchate seek protection and guidance elsewhere. For most of the history of the Soviet Union, its political system was characterized by divergence between the formal system as expressed in the Constitution of the Soviet Union and actual practice. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Saint Tikhon of Moscow (January 19, 1865 â€“ 7 April 1925), born Vasily Ivanovich Belavin (Ð’Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¸Ð¹ Ð˜Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð‘ÐµÐ»Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ð½ in Russian), was the Patriarch and all Russias of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925. ... The following is a list of Russian Orthodox metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow along with when they served: Metropolitans Maximus ( 1283- 1305) Peter ( 1308- 1326) Theognostus ( 1328- 1353) Alexius ( 1354- 1378) Cyprian ( 1381- 1382), ( 1390- 1406) Pimen ( 1382- 1384) Dionysius I ( 1384- 1385) Photius ( 1408- 1431) Isidore the Apostate ( 1437... Ukase (Russian: указ, ukaz) in Imperial Russia was a proclamation of the tsar government, or a religions leader patriarch that had the force of law. ... Saint Basils Cathedral, a well-known Russian Orthodox church situated in Moscow The Russian Orthodox Church (Ð ÑƒÑÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÐŸÑ€Ð°Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ»Ð°Ð²Ð½Ð°Ñ Ñ†ÐµÑ€ÐºÐ¾Ð²ÑŒ) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ...

Among some Russian Bishops and other hierarchs, this was interpreted as an authorization to form an emergency synod of all Russian Orthodox hierarchs to permit the Church to continue to function outside Russia. To add urgency to the synod's motives, in May of 1922, the Soviet government proclaimed its own "Living Church" as a "reform" of the Russian Orthodox Church. This article is about a title or office in religious bodies. ... A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. ... The Living Church (also called Renovated Church or Obnovlencheskaya Tserkov) was a theoretically Orthodox church reform set up in the old Soviet Union by the bolshevik government after they confiscated all property of the Russian Orthodox Church. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

On September 13, 1922, Russian Orthodox hierarchs in Serbia met in the town of Sremski Karlovci and established a Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, the foundation of ROCOR. In November of 1922, Russian Orthodox in North America held a synod and elected Metropolitan Platon as the primate of an autonomous Russian exarchate in the Americas. This led to a three-way conflict in the United States among the Exarchate, ROCOR (sometimes known as "the Synod" in this period), and the Living Church, which asserted that it was the legitimate (Soviet-government-recognized) owner of all Eastern Orthodox properties in the USA. September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Sremski Karlovci (Serbian: Sremski Karlovci or Ð¡Ñ€ÐµÐ¼ÑÐºÐ¸ ÐšÐ°Ñ€Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ñ†Ð¸, German: Karlowitz or Carlowitz, Croatian: Srijemski Karlovci, Hungarian: KarlÃ³ca, Turkish: KarlofÃ§a) is a town and municipality in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia and Montenegro, situated on the bank of the river Danube, between Belgrade and Novi Sad. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... The Living Church (also called Renovated Church or Obnovlencheskaya Tserkov) was a theoretically Orthodox church reform set up in the old Soviet Union by the bolshevik government after they confiscated all property of the Russian Orthodox Church. ...

The church of the refugees (1922–1991)

At first the Russian Orthodox Church's hierarchy within Russia had resisted Bolshevik rule. After arrests and persecution of much of the Church’s leadership, Metropolitan Sergiy Stargorodsky (one of the Assistant Deputy Patriarchs) agreed in 1927 to negotiations with the State Political Directorate from his prison cell. Sergiy pledged the church’s qualified loyalty to the Bolshevik state (an act his defenders claim saved the Church from total liquidation). This pledge caused a deep schism that prompted many disillusioned believers to go underground where they formed what became called the Russian True Orthodox Church. Sergiy’s accommodation also alienated the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.^[4]^[1] Patriarch Sergius I (Russian: Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³Ð¸Ð¹ I; born Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky (Ð˜Ð²Ð°Ð½ ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¡Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ñ€Ð¾Ð´ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹), January 11, 1867â€”May 15, 1944) was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, from September 8, 1943 until his death. ... Soviet poster of the 1920s: The GPU strikes on the head the counter-revolutionary saboteur State Political Directorate was the secret police of the RSFSR and USSR until 1934. ... Following the death of Patriarch Tikhon unrest settled over the Russian Orthodox Church. ...

Despite distancing itself from both the Bolsheviks and Sergiy, in 1927 ROCOR declared "The part of the Russian Church that finds itself abroad considers itself an inseparable, spiritually united branch of the Great Russian Church. It doesn't separate itself from its Mother Church and doesn't consider itself autocephalous", indicating that ROCOR considered itself to speak for all of the Russian Orthodox outside Russia.

During World War II, when the Church of England requested the right to pay a high level visit to the Russian Orthodox Church, General Secretary Joseph Stalin met with its metropolitans. Though it's sometimes stated that Stalin needed the Church to win the war, this is inaccurate as by that point the victorious battles of Stalingrad and Kursk had already put the USSR and its allies in a superior position. Stalin’s move was on the eve of the Teheran Conference and he wanted the ROC to impress the Anglican delegation and convince them that there was no religious persecution. He hoped that this would sway British public opinion and cause them to pressure their government to support an early invasion of Normandy to divert Nazi efforts away from his front. Stalin was told by Metropolitan Sergii that the most pressing needs of the Church was to convoke a sobor, elect a patriarch, and restore the Synod (which had been dissolved in 1935). Stalin approved everything and used military air transport to bring the bishops to Moscow allowing the sobor to open four days from his meeting with the metropolitans. He appointed Georgii Karpov (a major general in the NKVD) as the Council for the Russian Orthodox Church Affairs and all matters concerning Church-State relations where to go through him. Sergii turned down Stalin’s offer to fully subsidize the sobor and his offer of financial aid. He succeeded in obtaining Stalin’s permission to reopen the seminaries and theological schools "in as many eparchies as the Church would see fit". He also allowed the reopening of churches and the return of the monthly Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate to publication. Upon Metropolitan Alexii’s suggestion Stalin allowed a list of imprisoned priests and bishops to be handed over to Karpov for consideration of release (unfortunately many of those on the list had been executed in the persecution of 1937-38). The former German Embassy was requisitioned to serve as the official residence of the Patriarch and as his offices. Despite Stalin’s remarks at the meeting that Karpov would only be a liaison between the Church and the government his CROCA interfered into many internal Church affairs. Karpov was the decisive voice in the creation of the Church Statute of 1945, its main author being one of his assistants. He also ignored protests of the Patriarch when the USSR began liquidating monasteries again in 1946 and forced the hierarchy to submit. While churches were opened relatively quickly in land conquered from the Nazis, a long bureaucratic process was needed to open a church on Russian soil (taking up to three years and instantly derailed by anyone in the bureaucratic chain).^[5] The hierarchs of the ROCOR condemned this new arrangement with Stalin, saying that the Moscow patriarch had “made an alliance with Satan.”^[2] Image File history File links St. ... 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After the end of World War II, the Patriarchate of Moscow broached the possibility of reunification between Moscow and ROCOR, presumably at the behest of the Soviet government, which had adopted a more conciliatory attitude towards religion during the war and was presumably trying to capitalize on its wartime alliances to win a more respectable position internationally. This wasn't deemed possible at that time by the ROCOR, given that the USSR was still a communist state. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is about a form of government in which the state operates under the control of a Communist Party. ...

Conflict with ROC after the Soviet fall

Since the end of the Soviet Union, ROCOR has maintained its administrative independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. One ground cited is that the Church inside Russia had permitted itself to be unacceptably compromised. Some accusations go so far as to claim that the entire hierarchy within Russia were active KGB agents. ROCOR attempted to set up missions in post-Soviet Russia, which didn't improve relations. This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Note: This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. ...

ROCOR & ROC conflict over Palestinian properties

Between 1987 - 2000 the ROCOR and the ROC came into direct conflict over ownership of churches and properties within Palestine.

Background

While the first Russian Orthodox archimandrite arrived in Palestine in 1844,^[6] Russia's focus on the area began when Napoleon III took over control of France in an 1851 coup d'état and moved to seize control of properties in the Holy Land held by members of the Greek Orthodox Church. The court of the Czar had long held itself to be the main patron and protector of Orthodoxy, especially after most of the membership of the Greek Orthodox Church from 1460 until 1821 fell under the control of the Islamic Ottoman Empire (with its oppressive Devshirmeh and jizya laws). Through diplomacy and a show of force Napoleon III forced the Ottoman Empire to recognize France as the "sovereign authority" in the Holy Land. This moved control of many Christian holy sites and buildings out of Orthodox hands and under Catholicism. These events were one of the main triggers for the Crimean War of 1856. Despite defeat in the war by 1856, Russia remained concerned about the position and influence of the Ottoman Empire and its European allies.^[7] Czar Alexander II continually worked to make sure Russia would have a presence in Palestine. Towards these ends a consulate was created in 1858.^[6] The Czar also funded the work of Constantin von Tischendorf in finding the Codex Sinaiticus at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, at the foot of Mount Sinai. The Czar’s brother, the Grand Duke Constantine, and his wife the Princess Alexandra toured the area at this time.^[7] Significantly it was also around this period that Bishop Euspensy began missionary work in the area (his detractors claim he was “a czarist agent” with a “scheme of wresting the Jerusalem patriarchate away from the church’s liturgical twin, the Greek Orthodox Church.”^[8]). Euspensy’s efforts did not produce much but a few Christian Arab converts switching from the GOC to the ROC.^[8] The Russian government began using its diplomatic influence to persuade the Ottoman sultans to refuse the berat to candidates for patriarch to any GOC bishop that disagreed with them.^[6] By 1860 the Russian Palestine Society was founded. The society guided pilgrims to the Holy Land and bought property in Jerusalem and Nazareth. In addition it ran a theological seminary that also focused on teaching politics.^[8] The Russian Palestine Society built hospices for Russian pilgrims and churches (where the liturgy was in Slavonic) all over the country "to the great annoyance of the Greek patriarchal element."^[6] The ROC soon attracted more Arab Christians as it championed the idea that local Arab clergy should be promoted to bishops and hierarchs instead of having clergy from Greece imported and put in authority over them.^[6] Also in the 1860s the Russians began building an extensive group of buildings outside the city of Jerusalem on Jaffa road. These consisted of a large and elaborate church where the Russian archimandrite officiated, massive hostels for the pilgrims, a hospital and several other buildings capable of housing 1000 pilgrims, all within walking distance of the Russian consulate headquarters at the time.^[6]^[9] The ROC also built an ornate church at Gethsemane, and another at the site where their tradition holds that Jesus made his Ascension at the Mount of Olives. Another Russian hospice was built in the Muristan, along with an asylum for the insane, and schools.^[6] Russian pilgrimages were not only encouraged, but even subsidized by the Czar’s government. At the time both Russia’s political enemies and many within the GOC saw these projects as an intrigue of the Czar to make himself "a center of the Greek faith [i.e. Orthodoxy] which should rival Rome itself."^[9] This would all change with the fall of the Russian monarchy. 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Russian holdings in Palestine after the Russian Revolution

With the rise of the communists most of the church properties in Palestine remained in the hands of those at odds with the Bolsheviks, and the majority of these joined with the ROCOR.^[10] Some properties of the ROC remained completly closed until 1941, when the Politburo ordered the churches reopened. An invitation was extended by the Soviets for all Orthodox prelates in the Middle East to come to Moscow to witness the installation of Patriarch Alexei.^[8] In 1952 the Soviets reopened the Russian Palestine Society under the direction of Communist Party agents from Moscow, replaced Archimandrite Vladimir with communist trained Ignaty Polikarp, and won over many Christian Arabs with communist sympathies to the ROC. The members of other branches of Orthodoxy refused to associate with the Soviet led ROC in Palestine.^[8] When Israel became a state in 1948, all of the property under the control of the ROCOR within its borders was handed over to the Soviet dominated ROC in appreciation for Moscow's support of the Jewish state (this support was short-lived).^[10] The ROCOR maintained control over churchs and properties in the Jordanian-ruled West Bank and eastern Jerusalem unmolested until the late 1980s.^[10] Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ...

ROC and PA eviction of ROCOR in 1987

In 1987 Patriarch of Moscow Alexy II attempted to visit a ROCOR held monastery in Hebron with Yasser Arafat. It has been noted that "The Moscow-based church has enjoyed a close relationship with Arafat since his guerilla fighter days."^[11] Upon arrival Arafat and the patriarch where refused entry by the ROCOR clergy who held that Alexy had no legitimate authority. Two weeks afterwards police officers of the Palestinian Authority arrived and by "assaulting and cursing priests and nuns" they managed to evict the ROCOR clergy and then turned over the property to the ROC.^[10] The Cave of the Patriarchs, also site of the Ibrahimi Mosque. ... Not to be confused with Yasir Arafat (cricketer). ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ...

ROC and PA eviction of ROCOR in 2000

Alexy made another visit in early January 2000 to meet with Arafat and asked "for help in recovering church properties"^[12] as part of a "worldwide campaign to recover properties lost to churches that split off during the Communist era".^[13] Later that month the Palestinian Authority again moved to evict ROCOR clergy, this time from the three-acre Monastery of Abraham's Oak in Hebron.^[10]^[12] Five ROCOR monks and two nuns where forcibly removed from the property and ROC clergy took their places.^[10]^[12]^[13] The monks and nuns who were evicted said that they had been "badly manhandled."^[12] ROCOR Mother Superior Juliana said "We were told you have to leave because this man has to come here. This man was from the red church [i.e. the ROC]."^[12] Another nun stated "They put me on the floor and they dragged me like a sack of potatoes."^[12] A monk claimed he was "knocked to the ground, handcuffed and beaten."^[12] The ROCOR clergy stated that "the police refused to produce any documentation" and all seven of the ROCOR evictees required hospitalization.^[13] The claims that the PA police used force where disputed by Palestinian Security Chief Jibril Rijoub "This is not true. It did not happen. It will never happen in the future. ...As the responsible authority in Hebron and all parts of the West Bank, we have the right to do our best to help them [the ROC]."^[12]

Sr. Maria Stephanopoulos

The eviction of the ROCOR clergy at the Monastery of Abraham's Oak gained international attention because two ROCOR nuns who were American citizens managed to sneak into the confiscated monestary and barricade themselves inside a portion of the complex. Further media attention became focused on the event when it was discovered that one of the nuns was Maria Stephanopoulos the sibling of George Stephanopoulos the former advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Maria and her fellow nun Xenia Cesena communicated with reporters their motivation "No matter what happens to the property, we made it clear to the world what the Moscow church is doing to us."^[10] The supervisor of the ROCOR mission Archbishop Mark declared that they had "been talking with the Palestinian administration but so far no solution has been found, unfortunately."^[10] He said that the International Red Cross had been denied access to the nuns and any request for ROCOR clergy to visit the women had been rebuffed. He declared "The PA interfered in church affairs without a legal right. It's a state interference into church affairs [and] a violation of human rights."^[10] The compound was "bustling with staff from the Russian Consulate" and it was reported that they were giving food to the nuns. During the incident the five evicted monks maintained a vigil outside of the monastary sleeping in their car.^[10] As the nuns were American citizens the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem became involved to ensure their safety. When Arafat visited the US while the incident was ongoing the subject was raised by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.^[10] Ibrahim Kandalaft, in charge of Christian Affairs in the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs, told reporters "There is nothing so important here. This monastery belonged to the church of Moscow before 1917. It is returned to them."^[10] The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the PA raid, saying it "violated the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements under which both sides are to respect holy sites." The ROCOR Archbishop Laurus, opposed Patriarch Aleksei's actions and condemned the act as "a flagrant violation of international law."^[10] After confining herself to a section of the monastary without running water for over 60 days Sister Maria Stephanopoulos (who began limiting herself to a bread and water diet as a form of hunger strike) appealed to Pope John Paul II (who was making a historic visit in the area) to use his influence on Arafat to resolve the conflict, she said "I would hope this issue's going to resonate with him. He was in Poland and he really had a lot to do with the downfall of communism there, so he should certainly understand."^[11] Roman Catholic Bishop and the Vatican's ambassador to Jerusalem Kamal Bathish stated bluntly that the pope would not meet with Sister Maria or intervene on her behalf.^[11] Sister Maria complained of "brusque treatment at the hands of the Palestinian Authority guards" and being "harassed by the Moscow Patriarchate monks who occupy the other half of the compound."^[11] In an address to reporters her sibling, George Stephanopoulos, stated that he planed to meet with her in Hebron, and said "My greatest concern, as her brother, is that Sr. Maria remains safe and healthy, and I admire her determination."^[11] An agreement brokered by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Tom Lantos and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan with the PA, the U.S. consulate and the Moscow Patriarchate was made to allow Sister Maria and Sister Xenia Cesena greater access to the entire property, especially the monastery's chapel. Despite this, Sister Maria stated that the ROC monks were still preventing her from worshiping in the chapel, "Anytime we get close they close the door in our face. There's no such thing as equal access."^[11] She told reporters she had no intention of relenting, saying "I believe in the new martyrs, what they stood for. The freedom of the church in the end is what it's about."^[11] George Stephanopoulos George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American broadcaster and political adviser. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... 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Movement towards reconciliation

In 2000 Metropolitan Laurus became the First Hierarch of the ROCOR and expressed interest in the idea of reunification. The sticking point at the time was the ROCOR's insistence that the Moscow Patriarchy address the slaying of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918 by the Bolsheviks. The ROCOR held that "the Moscow Patriarchy must speak clearly and passionately about the murder of the tsar's family, the defeat of the anti-Bolshevik movement, and the execution and persecution of priests."^[2] The ROCOR also accused the leadership of the ROC as being submissive to the Russian government and were alarmed by their ties with other denominations of Christianity, especially Catholicism.^[2] Image File history File links Romanovicon. ... Image File history File links Romanovicon. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Tsar Nicholas II (18 May 1868 to 17 July 1918)1 was the last crowned Emperor of Russia. ... As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective , meaning general or universal[1] - is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: ~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or...

Some of these concerns were ended with the jubilee Council of Bishops in 2000, which canonized Tsar Nicholas and his family, along with more than 1,000 martyrs and confessors. This Council also enacted a document on relations between the church and the secular authorities, censoring servility and complaisance. They also rejected the idea of any connection between Orthodoxy and Catholicism.^[2] Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei are saints of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and passion bearers of the Russian Orthodox Church. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The title confessor is used in the Christian Church in two separate ways. ...

In 2001, the Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow and ROCOR exchanged formal correspondence. The Muscovite letter held the position that previous and current separation were purely political matters. ROCOR's response is that they were still worried about continued Muscovite involvement in ecumenism as compromising Moscow's Orthodoxy. Nevertheless, this was far more friendly a discourse than previous decades had seen. The word ecumenism (also oecumenism, Å“cumenism) is derived from Greek (oikoumene), which means the inhabited world, and was historically used with specific reference to the Roman Empire. ...

In 2003 Vladimir Putin met with Metropolitan Laurus in New York. This event was later hailed as an important step by Patriarch Alexy II who said that it showed the ROCOR that "not a fighter against God, but an Orthodox Christian is at the country's helm."^[14] Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the President of Russia. ...

In May 2004, Metropolitan Laurus, the head of the ROCOR, visited Russia participating in several joint services.^[15] In June 2004, a contingent of ROCOR clergy meeting with Patriarch Alexey II. Committees were set up by both the Patriarchate and ROCOR to begin dialogue towards rapprochement. Both sides decided to set up joint commissions, and determined the range of issues to be discussed at the All-Diaspora Council, which met for the first time since 1974.^[16]

The possibility of rapprochement has however led to schism within ROCOR; a small group led by a suspended bishop, Bishop Varnava (Prokofiev) of Cannes, left the ROCOR, taking with them ROCOR's self-retired former First Hierarch, Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov. In 2006, Bishop Varnava asked for forgiveness and was received back into the ROCOR. The word schism (IPA: or ), from the Greek ÏƒÏ‡Î¯ÏƒÎ¼Î±, skhÃsma (from ÏƒÏ‡Î¯Î¶Ï‰, skhÃzÅ, to tear, to split), means a division or a split, usually in an organization or a movement. ... Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov (Russian -ÐœÐ¸Ñ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸Ñ‚ Ð’Ð¸Ñ‚Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð¹, Ð² Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ñƒ - Ð Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸ÑÐ»Ð°Ð² ÐŸÐµÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð£ÑÑ‚Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð²), (18 March 1910, St Petersburg - 25 September 2006, Magog, Canada) was a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. ...

Reconciliation talks

After a series of six reconcilitation meetings^[17], the ROCOR and the Patriarchate of Moscow, on June 21, 2005, simultaneously announced that rapprochement talks were leading toward the resumption of full relations between the ROCOR and the Patriarchate of Moscow; and that the ROCOR would be given autonomy status.^[18]^[19] In this arrangement the ROCOR "will now join the Moscow Patriarchate as a self-governed branch, similar to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It will retain its autonomy in terms of pastoral, educational, administrative, economic, property and secular issues."^[20] June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The French for bring together. Used in English to describe the theory (that) says that children are best able to explore when they have the knowledge of a secure base to return to in times of need. See Attachment theory This article is a stub. ... In hierarchical Christian churches, especially Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, autocephaly is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. ... Ukrainian Orthodox Church may refer to: Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America Orthodox Christianity History of Christianity in Ukraine History of Christianity in Lala Land...

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In September 2006, the ROCOR Synod of Bishops approved the text of the document worked out by the commissions, an Act of Canonical Communion, and in October 2006, the commissions met again to propose procedures and a time for signing the document.^[22] The Act of Canonical Communion^[23] went into effect upon its confirmation by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, based the decision of the Holy Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, held in Moscow in October 3–October 8, 2004; as well as by decision of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR, on the basis of the resolution regarding the Act on Canonical Communion of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, held in San Francisco in May 15–May 19, 2006. October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (282nd in leap years). ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (136th in leap years). ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year (140th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Signing of the Act of Canonical Communion

On December 28, 2006, it was officially announced that the Act of Canonical Communion would finally be signed. The signing took place on the May 17, 2007, followed immediately by a full restoration of communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, celebrated by a Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, at which the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexius II and the First Hierarch of ROCOR concelebrated for the first time in history. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 436 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (825 Ã— 1134 pixel, file size: 282 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to the rule in Bridgeman Art Library v. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 436 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (825 Ã— 1134 pixel, file size: 282 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to the rule in Bridgeman Art Library v. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ... Full communion is completeness of that relationship between Christian individuals and groups which is known as communion. ... View of the cathedral in 1905 The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Russian: Храм Христа Спасителя) is the largest Orthodox church in the world. ... Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area - City 1,081 kmÂ² (417. ... Patriarch Alexius II Alexius II with Vladimir Putin The image above is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

On May 17, 2007, at 9:15 a.m., Metropolitan Laurus was greeted at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow by a special peal of the bells, and shortly thereafter, Patriarch Alexey II entered the Cathedral. After the Patriarch read the prayer for the unity of the Russian Church, the Act of Canonical Communion was read aloud, and two copies were each signed by both Metropolitan Laurus and Patriarch Alexey II. The two hierarchs then exchanged the "kiss of peace," and they and the entire Russian Church sang "God Grant You Many Years." Following this, the Divine Liturgy of the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord began, culminating with the entirety of the bishops of both ROCOR and MP partaking of the same Eucharist. May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ...

Present at the signing of the Act and at the Divine Liturgy, was Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was thanked by Patriarch Alexey for helping to facilitate the reconciliation between the two parts of the Russian Church. Putin then gave his remarks to an audience of Orthodox Christians, visitors, clergy, and press, saying "The split in the church was caused by an extremely deep political split within Russian society itself. We have realized that national revival and development in Russia are impossible without reliance on the historical and spiritual experience of our people. We understand well, and value, the power of pastoral words which unite the people of Russia. That is why restoring the unity of the church serves our common goals."^[1] Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the President of Russia. ...

The entire ceremony was broadcast live on Russian television, as well as live on the official website of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. The entire ceremony can be viewed on the Internet.^[24] The Royal Doors were open during the entire event, which usually occurs only during the Bright Week. 17th-century iconostasis of Prophet Elias church, Yaroslavl. ... In the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, the cycle of the moveable feast is built around Pascha, or Easter. ...

The Hierarchs of the Russian Church Abroad then served again with the Patriarch on May 19th, in the consecration of the Church of the New Martyrs in Butovo, where they had laid the cornerstone during their initial visit in 2004.^[25]^[26] Butovo Field was the site of numerous massacres by the NKVD, who executed tens of thousands of people from the 1930s to the 1950s. During fifteen months in 1937 and 1938 alone, 20,765 people were shot there.^[27] Finally, on Sunday, May 20th, they concelebrated in a Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Kremlin. Coat of Arms Map Yuzhnoye Butovo District (Russian: ) is a district in South-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow, in winter The Cathedral of the Dormition or Cathedral of the Assumption (in Russian, Uspensky Sobor (Успенский Собор)) is the name of several cathedrals in the world. ... Moscow Kremlin in the 19th century. ...

President Vladimir Putin gave a reception at the Kremlin to celebrate the reunification. In attendance were Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia and members of the Holy Synod for the Russian Orthodox Church; Metropolitan Laurus for the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia; Presidential chief of staff Sergei Sobyanin, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and Minister of Culture and Mass Communications Alexander Sokolov. Before the reception the participants posed for photographs by the Assumption Cathedral.^[28] Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin (Russian: ; born July 21, 1958 in the village of Nyaksimvol of Beryozovsky District of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) is the governor of Tyumen Oblast, Russian state and political figure, head of the Administration of the President of Russia. ... Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Ð”Ð¼Ð¸Ñ‚Ñ€Ð¸Ð¹ ÐÐ½Ð°Ñ‚Ð¾Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐœÐµÐ´Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ²)(b. ... Alexander Sokolov (born 1955) is a direct-carving or taille directe marble sculptor. ...

Critics of Act of Canonical Communion among the ROCOR

Critics of the reunification argue that "the hierarchy in Moscow still has not properly addressed the issue of KGB infiltration of the church hierarchy during the Soviet period."^[1] Among those skeptical of the move was noted Kremlin critic and outspoken ROCOR activist Konstantin Preobrazhensky (a former officer of the KGB now living in the USA). He expressed his fears that the ROCOR "would lose its independence and that eventually priests with loyalties to the Russian government would be sent to work in the United States. ...[and that] by agreeing to reunification, [Metropolitan] Laurus was inviting a new split, this time among his own flock."^[1] It has also been noted that "some parishes and priests of the ROCOR have always rejected the idea of a reunification with the ROC and said they would leave the ROCOR if this happened. The communion in Moscow may accelerate their departure."^[2] Note: This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. ...

Call for ROCOR to clarify position on collaborators

The writer Dmitry Shusharin has called on the ROCOR to "explicitly determine its stance on Nazi collaborators from among its clergy and laity." The matter was highlighted even before the reunification was complete when a Whiteguard memorial at The Church of All Saints near the Sokol metro station in northern Moscow was smashed by vandals on the eve of VE Day. Though the memorial had laid undisturbed for years it was destroyed soon after a public organization declared their intent to lay flowers upon it. The slab that was broken bore the names of many who were executed as war criminals in 1947 for fighting in German regiments against the communist state. These include "White [Army] generals Krasnov and Shkuro, and General von Pannwitz, who led a Cossack volunteer division against the Allies. The slab also bore the names of General Vlasov's soldiers, who fled to the West after the war, and Soviet officer defectors." Many have demanded that the slab be restored, and have appealed to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia for support.^[29]^[30] Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area - City 1,081 kmÂ² (417. ... Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945. ... Ataman Pyotr Krasnov Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (ÐŸÐµÑ‚Ñ€ ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐšÑ€Ð°ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð² in Russian) (September 22 (10 O.S.), 1869 â€” January 17, 1947), sometimes referred to in English as Peter Krasnov, was Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917, and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement afterwards. ... Andrei Shkuro Andrei Grigoriyevich Shkuro (Shkura) (ÐÐ½Ð´Ñ€ÐµÐ¹ Ð“Ñ€Ð¸Ð³Ð¾Ñ€ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¨ÐºÑƒÑ€Ð¾ (Ð¨ÐºÑƒÑ€Ð°) in Russian) (January 19, 1887 (O.S.: January 7) â€“ January 17, 1947) was a Lieutenant General (1919) of the White Army. ... Born in Silesia on October 14, 1898, Helmuth von Pannwitz was a Nazi General who commanded anti-partisan troops in Yugoslavia He was hanged by a Russian court on January 16, 1947. ... Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Ottoman Empire. ... The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis powers during the Second World War. ... General Andrey Vlasov General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Russian: ÐÐ½Ð´Ñ€ÐµÐ¹ ÐÐ½Ð´Ñ€ÐµÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð’Ð»Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð²; alternative transliterations of his names appear as Andrei Andreievich and as Vlassov or (in German) Wlassow) (September 14 [O.S. September 1] 1900 â€” August 2, 1946) was a Soviet Army General who later cooperated with Nazi Germany during World War II in...

A similar monument in Lihula, Estonia was commented upon by the head of the ROC. Estonia had been occupied by Soviet troops in 1940, they rounded up politicians and intellectuals for deportation into the remote regions of the USSR and conscripted men into the Red Army. After the country was taken by Nazi Germany in 1941 many Estonians joined them in an attempt to repel the Soviet re-conquest of 1944. When a monument honoring those who joined the Nazis to fight the Communists drew criticism, the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexii II supported the call for it to be dismantled.^[31] Lihula is a small town in Estonia in the cemetery of which a monument depicting an Estonian soldier in a World War II German uniform, resembling the SS-uniform, was unveiled on August 20, 2004, with a dedication as follows: To Estonian men who fought in 1940-1945 against Bolshevism... Lihula (German: ) is a town in Estonia with population of 1,614 (as of 2006). ...

The topic of Nazi collaborators has been broached before by the ROCOR in their Second Ecclesio-Historical Conference in 2002, which produced the statement noting “the attempt of the Nazi leadership to divide the Church into separate and even inimical church formations was met with internal church opposition.”^[32] The ROCOR also expanded on the topic in its May 9, 2006 document “The Path Towards Healing the Divisions in the Russian Church; the Pre-Conciliar Process” where reflecting on the ROC Church under Stalin they asked ROCOR members to reflect that “a particular part of our Church had not come out of its short period of coexistence with another dictatorship—that of Hitler—in altogether pristine condition. Our hierarchy did not collaborate with it, but our parishioners were quite ready to support it and it is not important through what motives—the motives of people in Russia who demonstrated varying degrees of loyalty to the Soviet regime were also varied. But we do not know what would have happened to us if the Nazi regime had lasted for 70 years.”^[33] Hitler redirects here. ...

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Contents

Formation and early years

The church of the refugees (1922–1991)

Conflict with ROC after the Soviet fall

ROCOR & ROC conflict over Palestinian properties

Background

Russian holdings in Palestine after the Russian Revolution

ROC and PA eviction of ROCOR in 1987

ROC and PA eviction of ROCOR in 2000

Sr. Maria Stephanopoulos

Movement towards reconciliation

Reconciliation talks

Signing of the Act of Canonical Communion

Critics of Act of Canonical Communion among the ROCOR

Call for ROCOR to clarify position on collaborators

References

See also

External links

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Formation and early years GA_googleFillSlot("encyclopedia_square");

The church of the refugees (1922–1991)

Conflict with ROC after the Soviet fall

ROCOR & ROC conflict over Palestinian properties

Background

Russian holdings in Palestine after the Russian Revolution

ROC and PA eviction of ROCOR in 1987

ROC and PA eviction of ROCOR in 2000

Sr. Maria Stephanopoulos

Movement towards reconciliation

Reconciliation talks

Signing of the Act of Canonical Communion

Critics of Act of Canonical Communion among the ROCOR

Call for ROCOR to clarify position on collaborators

References

See also

External links

Formation and early years