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The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Russian: Ру́сская Правосла́вная Це́рковь Заграни́цей Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov’ Zagranitsey) also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad ROCA or ROCOR is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church.ROCOR was formed as a jurisdiction of Eastern Orthodoxy as a response against the policy of Bolsheviks with respect to religion in the Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and separated from the Russian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in 1927 after an imprisoned metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) pledged the Church’s qualified loyalty to the Bolshevik state.
