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( Russian Orthodox Church)
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia The Russian Church or The Moscow Patriarchate (Russian ??????? ???????????? ???????; or ?????????? ?????????? (the latter designation being another official name[3]) since 1943; ????????? ?????????? ???????????? ??????? before the reinstitution in 1943), also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is a body of Christians who constitute an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Moscow, in communion with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches. The Russian Orthodox Temple is organized in a hierarchical structure. Every temple building and its attendees constitute a parish (??????). There are almost 28,000 parishes in the Temple, mostly in the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus. The Russian Temple numbers over 145 million members world wide, thus making it the second largest local temple after Rome. All parishes in a geographical region belong to an eparchy (??????? —equivalent to a Western diocese). Eparchies are governed by bishops (episkope or archierey). There are around 130 Russian Orthodox eparchies worldwide.
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