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===Moscow the Third Rome or the New Fifth Great See===

Some saw [[Church of Russia|Moscow]] as the [[Third Rome]], and the [[primate]] of the Russian Church senior to the [[Patriarch]] of Constantinople. But this seniority has never been granted, and Russia has always ranked no higher than fifth among the Orthodox churches, after Jerusalem. The concept of Moscow the Third Rome also encouraged a kind of Muscovite Messianism, and led Russians sometimes to think of themselves as a chosen people who could do no wrong; and if taken in a political as well as religious sense, it could be used to further the ends of Russian secular imperialism. This may have led to the schism of the [[Old Believers]].

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