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This list of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church includes only people canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church, or the preceding Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'. Saints are sorted by their first names. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow canonised a total of 39 saints at two Church councils held in 1547 and 1549, and later added 8 more ...
The Orthodox Church does not require the manifestation of miracles, as it does in Roman Catholicism; what is required is evidence of a virtuous life and prior local veneration of the saint. [ 1 ] Because the Church shows no true distinction between the living and the dead, as the saints are considered to be alive in heaven , saints are referred ...
Bartholomew, son of boyars; patron saint of Russia, spiritual and monastic reformer; became hermit and built the Holy Trinity Church amidst wood in Makovets; ate only prosphora, most of it gave to bears; gradually more henochs came to him, and so the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius was founded, the "Heart of Russia"; blessed Dmitry Donskoy for the ...
Boris and Gleb, first saints canonised in Kievan Rus'. Canonization is usually divided into two categories: local and church-wide. The church-wide canonization is always performed by the highest church organ, that is the Metropolitan or Patriarch above the Council of Eparchs, the chief member above the Most Holy Synod in the synodal period, or the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia above ...
Pages in category "Russian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church" The following 152 pages are in this category, out of 152 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Modern icon of All Saints of Russia. The Feast of All Saints of Russia, [1] also known as The Feast Day of All Russian Saints [2] Resplendent in the Russian land (Russian: Собор всех святых, в земле Русской просиявших), is a day of remembrance celebrated in the Russian Orthodox Church on the second Sunday after Pentecost.
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Московский патриархат, Moskovskiy patriarkhat), [12] is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
Pages in category "Eastern Orthodox royal saints from Russia" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .