Tolong jelaskan mengenai Sinode Mahakudus

Sinode Mahakudus () adalah badan pemerintahan tertinggi Gereja Ortodoks Rusia antara 1721 dan 1918 (saat Gereja menghimpun ulang Patriarkat). Yurisdiksi Sinode Mahakudus meliputi segala jenis pertanyaan gerejawi dan sebagian materi sekuler.

Cracraft, James. "Diplomatic and Bureaucratic Revolutions, Revolutions and Resistance." The Revolution of Peter the Great. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003. 60-65, 120-130. Print.

Cracraft, James. The Church Reform of Peter the Great. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1971. Print.

Krindatch, Alexey. "Changing relationships between Religion, the State, and Society in Russia." GeoJournal 67.4 (2006): 267-282. Print.

Riasanovsky, Nicholas Valentine, and Mark D. Steinberg. “The Reign of Peter the Great.” A History of Russia. Vol. I. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 211-29. Print.

The Catholic Encyclopedia volume 7, entry by Adrian Fortescue, publisher: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.

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