The Baptism of Rus. Then followed an unforgettable and quite singular event in Russian ... Tsar Theodore Ioannovich, under whom (in 1589) the Russian Orthodox Church became the fifth independent ...

Currently, the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalem, Serbian Orthodox Churches, Athos monasteries in Greece, Eastern Catholic Churches and Old Believers celebrate the Baptism of the Lord on January 19.

Close observers of Eastern Orthodox Christianity were ... The Ukrainian and Russian peoples came out of the Dnieper Baptismal ...