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RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
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I. (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)