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The '''Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia''' (also called the ''Russian Orthodox Church Abroad'', ''ROCA'', ''ROCOR'', or ''the Synod'') is a [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Orthodox Church]] formed in response against the policy of Bolsheviks with respect to religion in the Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution.
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name= Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia|
website=[http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/ ROCOR]
}}
The '''Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia''' (also called the ''Russian Orthodox Church Abroad'', ''ROCA'', ''ROCOR'', or ''the Synod'') is a [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Orthodox Church]] formed in response against the policy of Bolsheviks with respect to religion in the Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution.
==History==
===The Church of the Refugees (1922-1991)===
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In 1927, ROCOR declared "The part of the Russian Church that finds itself abroad considers itself an inseparable, spiritually united branch of the Great Russian Church. It does not separate itself from its Mother Church and does not consider itself autocephalous," indicating that ROCOR considered itself to speak for all of the Russian Orthodox outside of Russia. The Church Abroad also considered itself to be the free voice of the enslaved Mother Church in the Soviet Union.