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3. How did Peter the Great change the orthodox Church?

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He ended the autonomy of the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, and he turned the Church into a department of the state. The Tsar totally dominated the Church just as he did all other aspects of Russian life. Despite his reforms, Russia remained an autocracy and Peter was an absolute ruler
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