The Russian Orthodox Church

Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...

is the main group of Eastern Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

, a mainly Muslim country. Many of its members are Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

. Uzbekistan falls within the area of
Tashkent and Central Asian Eparchy, which is headed by an archbishop.
It has been established in 1871 and extends to Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

, Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

 and Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

. There are Russian Orthodox cathedral

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...

s in Tashkent

Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

 and Samarkand

Samarkand

Although a Persian-speaking region, it was not united politically with Iran most of the times between the disintegration of the Seleucid Empire and the Arab conquest . In the 6th century it was within the domain of the Turkic kingdom of the Göktürks.At the start of the 8th century Samarkand came...

. Uzbekistan has thirteen Russian Orthodox Churches, three of which are in Ashgabat.
The Russian Orthodox Church has a better standing with the government than other religious groups do. The Uzbek government claims to be secular.

See also

• Christianity in Uzbekistan
  Christianity in Uzbekistan
  Prior to the advent of Islam, present-day Uzbekistan had sizable communities of eastern Christians, including Nestorians and Jacobites. Initially tolerated by the Muslim rulers, they came under increasing persecution and pressure to convert. Around 1400, Tamerlane engaged in a fierce campaign to...
  
  
• Religion in Uzbekistan
  Religion in Uzbekistan
  Islam is by far the majority religion in Uzbekistan with a 96.3% Muslim population.- Islam :There are more Sunnite than Shiite Muslims among the residents. Islam was brought to ancestors of modern Uzbeks during the 8th century when the Arabs entered Central Asia. Islam initially took hold in the...
  
  
• Protestantism in Uzbekistan
  Protestantism in Uzbekistan
  Protestants are less than 1 % of the population of Uzbekistan. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Uzbekistan is a church of seven congregations. The seat of the bishop of Tashkent. The president of the synod is Gilda Raspopowa....
  
  
• Roman Catholicism in Uzbekistan
  Roman Catholicism in Uzbekistan
  The Roman Catholic Church in Uzbekistan is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome. There are approximately 5000 Catholics in the country of 27 million. They are organized under a single Apostolic Administration...
  
  
• Orthodox Christianity in Uzbekistan
  Orthodox Christianity in Uzbekistan
  Orthodox Christianity in Uzbekistan is a major proportion of Christianity in Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan has a Muslim majority. According to a 2009 US State Department release, about 5 % of the population of Uzbekistan are orthodox, many of whom are ethnic Russians...