Church property and art was confiscated, and the Soviets infiltrated the church to split it ideologically from the inside. By the time World War II broke out, the mainstream church had all but ...

A revered religious painting that has just been transferred on President Vladimir Putin's orders from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church needs a year of restoration and remains state property ...

Irina Sosnovtseva, a senior researcher at the Russian Museum and expert in ancient Russian art, says many experts are doubtful the church will be able to adequately care for the delicate treasures.

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church ...

Cyril and Methodius were the Greek linguists whose translation of Christian texts into the Slavic language inspired Fr. John Veniaminov, later St. Innocent of Alaska, to establish Alaska’s first ...

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY, 1 (RUSSIA OUT) Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, left, attends an Orthodox Easter Mass at the Christ The Saviour Catherdal, in Moscow on May,1, 2016.

Then, in 1983, in anticipation of Russian Orthodoxy’s celebration of its millennium in 1988, the government returned Moscow’s historic Danilov Monastery to the church.

By Alexander Marrow. May 27 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, fired archpriest Leonid Kalinin, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s expert council on church art, architecture, and restoration for ...