Russian Orthodox Church splits with Constantinople Patriarch
The Russian Orthodox Church is cutting ties with the Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomew I after a dispute over the Patriarch’s plans to recognise a new pro-Western Ukrainian branch of the church. Patriarch Bartholomew, the Archbishop of Constantinople and “first among equals”, de facto head, of the 300 million Christians in the Orthodox church, announced he was […]
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