Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (Agathangelos)

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Church of the Archangel Michael in Odessa as the seat of the church

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia under Metropolitan Agathangelos (Russian Русская Православная Церковь Заграницей под омофором метрополита Агафангела) is an Orthodox church in Russia , the Ukraine , the United States and other countries. It is not recognized as canonical by most of the Orthodox churches .

Structures

Church of St. Nikolai in Lyon , seat of the eparchy of Western Europe

The Church has 16 eparchies with about 100 parishes in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Georgia , Bulgaria , Cyprus , France , Norway , Germany , the USA, Canada , Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Paraguay , Tunisia , Israel and Australia . It includes several monasteries and a spiritual seminary in Odessa. Its headquarters are in Odessa in the Ukraine and in New York . The head is Metropolitan Agathangelos.

The Church is in communion with the Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece (Chrysostomos Synod) , the Orthodox Old Calendar Church of Romania and the Bulgarian Orthodox Old Calendar Church .

Teaching and Practice

The Church is Orthodox in teaching and spiritual life. It follows the Byzantine rite in the liturgy and uses the Julian calendar .

It distances itself from the Sergianism of the Russian Orthodox Church in the time of the Soviet Union as too great concessions to the political situation and the ecumenism of the Russian Orthodox Church as too close to the Roman Catholic Church .

history

In 2006, Bishop Agathangelos of Odessa declared the separation of his eparchy from the Russian Orthodox Church abroad , after it had decided to merge with the Russian Orthodox Church . She kept the church fellowship with the Orthodox Old Calendar Church of Romania and the Bulgarian Orthodox Old Calendar Church, which the Russian Church Abroad had given up because of the union with the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 2007, Bishop Agathangelos declared his rejection of the officially completed union of the Russian Church Abroad with the Russian Orthodox Church. Many congregations of the foreign Church in the USA, Western Europe, Russia and other countries joined him. The temporary higher ecclesiastical leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad was formed as a provisional structure. In that year a church fellowship was concluded with the Greek Synod in resistance and new bishops were ordained. In 2008 the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad was formed.

In the following years, other parishes and clergymen joined the church, including Bishop Irenäus Klippenstein from the Russian True Orthodox Church for Western Europe, based in Cologne.

Since 2015, numerous congregations and clergymen have left the church because of their dissatisfaction with the administration of Metropolitan Agathangelos.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Bishops, eparchies and parishes as of 2014 or earlier (Russian)
  2. ^ Bishop Kyrill Krawez at the synod of 2015 (Russian)