Russian Orthodox Religion

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”