Relations strained (betweem Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church).Moscow (ENI--The Russian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. Russian Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox church of Russia, its de facto national church. In 988 Prince Vladimir of Kiev (later St. has presented what it describes as evidence supporting its long-standing charge of Roman Catholic proselytising in Russia. The Moscow Patriarchate pa·tri·ar·chate n. 1. The territory, rule, or rank of a patriarch. 2. See patriarchy. patriarchate Noun the office, jurisdiction or residence of a patriarch Noun of the Russian Orthodox Church sent letters to the Vatican setting out its definition of proselytising and listing cases of what it viewed. as Catholic poaching poaching: see cooking. of its flock. The letters were a response to recent Catholic claims that attempts are being made to curb Catholic church activities in Russia. Already-strained relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican plunged to a new low last February after Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła created four Roman Catholic dioceses in Russia united in an "ecclesiastical province" headed by an archbishop in Moscow. |
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