Russian_True_Orthodox_Church_(Lazar_Zhurbenko)
Russian True Orthodox Church (Lazar Zhurbenko)
Religious denomination formed in 2002
The Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC, Russian: Российская истинно православная церковь, РИПЦ), also called lazarites[1] (after Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko)) or tikhonites (after Archbishop Tikhon (Pasechnik)),[2][lower-alpha 1] is an independent Russian Orthodox church professing True Orthodoxy. It was formed in 2002 by Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko) and Bishop Benjamin (Rusalenko), the two hierarchs of ROCOR inside the territory of Russia, who refused the process of unification of the ROCOR with the Moscow Patriarchate; Lazar and Benjamin therefore joined the ROCOR (V) (a rival Church of the ROCOR), then left it thereafter and thus their Church became independent.
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The RTOC has two Archbishops (Tikhon and Benjamin) and 3 Bishops (Filaret, Savvati and Germogen); the president of the Holy Synod is Archbishop Tikhon.[3]