The Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC, Russian: Российская истинно православная церковь, РИПЦ), also called lazarites[1] (after Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko)) or tikhonites (after Archbishop Tikhon (Pasechnik)),[2][a] is an independent Russian Orthodox church professing True Orthodoxy.

[4] In 2011 the hierarchs of the RTOC have ordained hieromonk Akakije (Nemanja Stanković) as the bishop of the Serbian True Orthodox Church.

[5] In 2018 the bishops of the RTOC broke communion with the Serbian True Orthodox Church as Bishop Akakije took under his omophorion a large number of clergy that had no canonical leave from the hierarchs of the RTOC.

[6] Currently in Russia, the Russian True Orthodox Church has the following dioceses: Omsk-Siberia, Odesa-Kharkiv, Black Sea-Kuban, Chernihiv-Gomel, Novgorod-Tver, and Verney-Semirechiye (Kazakhstan).

[7] The RTOC rejects Sergianism and holds that the sacraments of the Moscow Patriarchate (which they consider distinct from the Russian Orthodox Church that existed before the Bolshevik revolution) are anathema or invalid and ineffectual for salvation.