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Spas ( Russian: Телеканал «Спас») is a federal channel in Russia which is associated with the Russian Orthodox Church. It started broadcasting in on July 28, 2005. The main owner of the channel is the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. The founders of the TV channel are Alexander Batanov (died 2009) and Ivan Demidov.
The Russian Orthodox Church ( ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized : Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate ( Russian: Московский патриархат, romanized : Moskovskiy patriarkhat ), [12] is an autocephalous ...
Russian revolution. Highest authority of Russian Orthodox Church in 1917, following the election of St. Tikon as Patriarch. In 1914 in Russia, there were 55,173 Russian Orthodox churches and 29,593 chapels, 112,629 priests and deacons, 550 monasteries and 475 convents with a total of 95,259 monks and nuns.
In 1971, he was appointed representative of the Moscow Patriarchate at the World Council of Churches and has been actively involved in the ecumenical activity of the Russian Orthodox Church since then. [5] Since 1994, Kirill has hosted a weekly Orthodox television program "Слово пастыря" (The Word of the Shepherd) on ORT/Channel One ...
With some Eastern Orthodox believers calling Moscow the "Third Rome", or the "New Rome", the Russian Church gained influence in the orthodox world outside the Ottoman Empire. [8] After this event, a series of doctrinal and liturgical differences would emerge in the Slavic Orthodox world, being cut off from its Greek counterpart.
Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian Orthodox Church ...
Tsargrad TV (Russian: Царьград ТВ) is a Russian television channel owned by Konstantin Malofeev. It was named after Tsargrad , the old Slavic name for Constantinople . It is known for its pro-Kremlin and Russian Orthodox stances.
RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya; Russian: Россия Сегодня) [8] is a Russian state-controlled [1] international news television network funded by the Russian government. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] It operates pay television and free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in ...