Russian True Orthodox Church (Lazar Zhurbenko)

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Russian True Orthodox Church
Cathedral Church of the RTOC in Odesa dedicated to St. John of Kronstadt
Abbreviation	RTOC
Type	Eastern Orthodox
Classification	Independent Eastern Orthodox
Orientation	True Orthodox
President of the Holy Synod	Archbishop Tikhon (Pasechnik)
Archbishops	2
Bishops	3
Possessions	Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Greece, Argentina, Brazil, Serbia
Origin	2002
Independence	2002
Recognition	Unrecognized by World Orthodox Churches – see True Orthodoxy
Other name(s)	Lazarites, Tikhonites
Official website	www.ripc.info

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][a] 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) [ru] (a rival Church of the ROCOR), then left it thereafter and thus their Church became independent.

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]

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