Local Russian Orthodox church in St Petersburg Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church ROC; Russian: ÃÂ ÃÆÃÂÃÂÃÂúðàÿÃâ¬Ã°Ã²Ã¾ÃÂûðÃÂòýðàÃâ õÃÂÃâ¬ÃºÃ¾Ã²ÃÅ, tr. Rússkaya pravoslávnaya tsérkov, alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate Russian: ÃÅþÃÂúþÃÂòÃÂúøù ÿðÃâÃâ¬Ã¸Ã°Ãâ¬Ãâ¦Ã°ÃÂÃâ, tr. Moskóvskiy patriarkhát is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The Primate of the ROC is the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus`. The ROC, as well as the primate thereof, officially ranks fifth in the Orthodox order of precedence, immediately below the four ancient patriarchates of the Greek Orthodox Church, those of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem
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