RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Russian Orthodox Church mean? 

• RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (noun)
  The noun RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH has 1 sense:

1. an independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia

  Familiarity information: RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Russian Orthodox Church" is a kind of...):

Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Eastern Orthodox Church; Orthodox Catholic Church; Orthodox Church (derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites)