No! He never conquered Russia-was turned back by the weather as well as military action. He may have theorized the idea. later Frenchmen buried the hatchet and Paris was a hubub of both Czarist and later Communist Russians and there are and were Russian Orthodox churches in Paris, partly for diplomatic reasons. In world war I France and Czarist Russia were allies in the battle against Germany.
No, it was to force Russia to comply with the Continental System.
It has over 160 million followers, making it the largest Orthodox Church in the world.
It led to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church, which is now the largest Orthodox church in the world, with over 150 million members.
The Russian Orthodox Church has approximately 100 million followers. Some estimates put the total worldwide Russian Christian figure at over 150 million.
The Orthodox Churches and the Catholic Church were once united. The Orthodox Churches separated from the Catholic Church over political and doctrinal differences.
Jesus Christ is the Head of the Orthodox Christian Church. However, on earth, there are several spiritual heads, or ecclesiastical leaders who guide the flock. In Russia, the spiritual head is His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Russia, who presides over the Holy Synod.
I know Russia is the second country who believes in evolution so Atheism would be one of themChristianity (mostly Russian Orthodox) with Islam and Buddhism in central Asia and far Eastern Russia.
The Orthodox Christian Church is over 2,000 years old, however, the name for this Church in Greece and some other parts of the world started to become known as "Greek Orthodox" from about 1821. The Greek Orthodox are part of the Orthodox Christian Church (sometimes called the Eastern Orthodox Church) which is the same Church that Jesus founded in 33 AD.
The pope does not have any authority in the Orthodox Church. The pope only has authority over Roman Catholics.
disagreements over who leads the church
The pope in Rome is not the leader of any Orthodox Church. The pope is only the leader of the Roman Catholics and has no jurisdiction (power or authority) over the Orthodox Church, which has its own leaders, such as the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople.
There are over 300 million members of the Eastern Orthodox Church