when the Russian Empire seized

In brief, the modern history of Russian Orthodoxy in what is now Moldova began in the first part of the 19th century when the Russian Empire seized the region from the Ottoman Empire and reorganized the existing Orthodox presence under the Patriarchate of Moscow. When Romania absorbed this region in 1918, Bucharest the local churches under the Patriarchate of Romania. That arrangement continued until World War II, at the end of which the Soviet Union annexed what is now Moldova and the ROC MP replaced the Romanian church. When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991 ufabet