Czechs Today The Czech Orthodox Church - a community with a long and rich history in Bohemia and Moravia

08-11-2006 15:04 | Coilin O'Connor

Although the Orthodox Church has a relatively small congregation in this country, it has a long and colourful history in the Czech lands. It was the Orthodox Saints Cyril and Methodius who first brought Christianity to this part of the world when they converted Great Moravia in the ninth century, and Moravia was actually the place from where Orthodox Christianity later spread eastwards to Ukraine and Russia.

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