Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

…and became known as the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). It had no canonical relation with the official Orthodox patriarchates and churches until May 2007. That year, following reforms within both Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union, the…

…to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), a semiautonomous branch of the Russian Orthodox Church that severed canonical communion with the mother church between 1927 and 2007.