The Eastern Orthodox cross
The Russian Church Abroad[]
On November 7, 1920 Patriarch Tikhon issued an Encyclical ordering that the millions of Russian diaspora that had fled the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution organinze a church authority outside of Soviet control. The Russian Orthodox Church was in 1920 organized under the communist Soviets.
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