The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also referred to as the Orthodox Church and Orthodoxy, is the second largest Christian church in the world, with an estimated 225–300 million adherents, primarily in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
The Church's structure is composed of several self-governing ecclesial bodies. These autocephalous jurisdictions are geographically (and often nationally) distinct, but unified in theology and worship.
The Russian Orthodox Church is one of the branches of this belief and it like many other strands of Christianity was affected by the Ring of Fire
The Russian Civil War is unexpectedly changing the relationship between the Orthodox Church and the Russian country