page_title: Belarusian Orthodox Church
hierarchical_section_title: Belarusian Orthodox Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Cathedral of Holy Spirit, Minsk, Belarus. Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎: Катэдральны сабор Сьвятога Духа, Менск, Беларусь. Русский: Кафедральный собор Святого Духа, Минск, Белоруссия.
context_page_description: Belarusian Orthodox Church is the official name of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus. It represents the union of Russian orthodox eparchies in the territory of Belarus and is the largest religious organization in the country, uniting the predominant majority of its Eastern Orthodox Christians.
  The leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church is His Grace Bishop Benjamin
  The church enjoys a much lower degree of autonomy than the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which is a semi-autonomous entity associated with the Russian Orthodox Church.
  The Belarusian Orthodox Church strongly opposes the minor and largely emigration-based Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
context_section_description: Belarusian Orthodox Church (Belarusian: Беларуская праваслаўная царква, Russian: Белорусская православная церковь) is the official name of the Belarusian Exarchate (Belarusian: Беларускі экзархат, Russian: Белорусский экзархат) of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus. It represents the union of Russian orthodox eparchies in the territory of Belarus and is the largest religious organization in the country, uniting the predominant majority of its Eastern Orthodox Christians.
  The leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church is His Grace Bishop Benjamin 
  The church enjoys a much lower degree of autonomy than the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which is a semi-autonomous entity associated with the Russian Orthodox Church.
  The Belarusian Orthodox Church strongly opposes the minor and largely emigration-based Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
caption: Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the central Orthodox church of Minsk
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