What is the Russian Synod?

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In modern Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church is the highest governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church between Sobors. It is headed by the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus’.

What version of the Bible does the Russian Orthodox Church use?

Russian Synodal Bible
The Russian Synodal Bible (Russian: Синодальный перевод, The Synodal Translation) is a Russian non-Church Slavonic translation of the Bible commonly used by the Russian Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic, as well as Russian Baptists and other Protestant communities in Russia.

What do Russian Orthodox Christians believe in?

Essentially the Orthodox Church shares much with the other Christian Churches in the belief that God revealed himself in Jesus Christ, and a belief in the incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion and resurrection. The Orthodox Church differs substantially in the way of life and worship.

Why did Peter the Great create Holy Synod?

Peter used the Synod to find and punish dissident Russians. An addition in 1722 to the Ecclesiastic Regulation, which replaced the patriarch as the church head, required clerics to report any seditious confessions. Before the creation of the Most Holy Synod, Peter concerned himself with improvements in the church.

What did the Holy Synod do?

Peter created the Synod, made up of representatives of the hierarchy obedient to his will, to subject the church to the state, and appointed a secular official, the chief procurator, to supervise its activities.

What is a Coptic bishop called?

According to Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria traditions, the pope, being the bishop of Alexandria and being the senior and elder bishop and the metropolitan archbishop of the province and primate of all Egypt, is the head of the Holy Synod as a first among equals.

Is there an evangelical church in Russia?

In Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union where there was no freedom of religion before 1990, megachurches have helped spread evangelical Christianity. Most of these congregations were established in the early 1990s. They are all located in large cities.

Do Orthodox Christians use the King James Bible?

The Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) is an Eastern Orthodox study Bible published by Thomas Nelson. It features an English translation of the St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint for the Old Testament and utilizes the New King James Version for the New Testament.

Why is the Russian Orthodox cross different?

The Russian Orthodox cross differs from the Western cross. The cross usually has three crossbeams, two horizontal and the third one is a bit slanted. The middle bar was where Christ’s hands were nailed.

Who created the Holy Synod?

Tsar Peter I
Holy Synod, Ecclesiastical governing body created by Tsar Peter I in 1721 to head the Russian Orthodox Church, replacing the patriarchate of Moscow.

Is the Russian Orthodox Church Catholic?

The Eastern Orthodox Church considers itself to be both orthodox and catholic. The doctrine of the Catholicity of the Church, as derived from the Nicene Creed, is essential to Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology.

What is the Holy Synod of Russia?

Holy Synod, Ecclesiastical governing body created by Tsar Peter I in 1721 to head the Russian Orthodox Church, replacing the patriarchate of Moscow.

Why did the Russian Church choose the Synodal Bible?

Russian Synodal Bible. This decision was grounded on Filaret’s 1834 note “On the need of the Russian Church for a translation of the whole Bible from the original texts to the modern Russian language” and reflected the growing acceptance in the Russian theological community of the contemporary Western standards of Biblical scholarship of the time.

Where did the translation of the Holy Synod take place?

The Most Holy Synod entrusted the completion of the translation to four Orthodox theological academies, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan and Kiev.