RO Russian Orthodox church was among the most fast-growing churches in the world, Grigory Alfeev] declare

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RO Russian Orthodox church is one of the most fast-growing churches of the world, the head of Synod department of external church relations of the Moscow patriarchy the metropolitan Volokolamsk Illarion claims. It reminded that three decades ago in RO Russian Orthodox church only six thousand arrivals, and now — forty thousand were. And the quantity of monasteries increased from twenty almost to one thousand, reports information agency "ITAR-TASS". According to the metropolitan, growth of church constructions in such scales is based on "inquiry of the population"...
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Vladimir Gundyaev (Kirill)
Last position: Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (The Russian Orthodox Church)
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Grigory Valerievich Alfeev (Mitropolit Ilarion)
Last position: Metropolitan Budapest and Hungarian (The Russian Orthodox Church)
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Dimitrios Arkhondonis (Bartholomew I)
Last position: The archbishop of Constantinople — New Rome and the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople orthodox church
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The Russian Orthodox Church
Main activity:Activity of public associations and international organizations
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