Split With The Russian Orthodox

The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, while acknowledging the primacy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia, believed that the small Roman Catholic minority in Russia, in continuous existence since at least the 18th century, should be served by a fully developed church hierarchy with a presence and status in Russia, just as the Russian Orthodox Church is present in other countries including constructing a cathedral in Rome, near the Vatican. For this reason, Ireland is sometimes ironically remembered as the "Father of the Orthodox Church in America". Many thousands of victims of persecution became recognized in a special canon of saints known as the " new martyrs and confessors of Russia". November 11, at 8: In it was proclaimed that the Russian Orthodox Church had created a prayer order for Meletius of Kharkov, which practically signified his canonization because that was the only possible way to do it at that time.