The 1988 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (russian: Поме́стный собо́р Ру́сской правосла́вной це́ркви 1988 года) was the fourth in the history of the

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. It was held June 6 to 9, 1988 at the

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in the Refectory Church. It was held in connection with the

1000th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus' The 1000th Anniversary of the Christianization of Rus' (1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus, russian: 1000-летие крещения Руси) was an occasion marked by events held in the USSR from May – June 1988, to celebrate the introdu ...

. The most important outcome of the Council was the adoption of a new charter of the Russian Orthodox Church and the

canonization Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of ...

of nine zealots of Orthodoxy. At the council in 1988, in contrast to the councils in 1945 and 1971, the debate on ecclesiastical order at various levels had been very busy, sometimes acute; often, members of the council expressed diametrically opposed opinions.

Background

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References

{{Portal bar, Christianity, Russia 1988 in Christianity 1988 in Russia 1988 in the Soviet Union 20th-century Eastern Orthodoxy Eastern Orthodoxy in the Soviet Union History of the Russian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church in Russia 1988 conferences