Eastern Orthodox Christians are splitting
| Biggest Christian schism since 1054 is threatened. |
| Eastern Orthodox Christians are splitting. |
| In Ukraine, they are incensed by what they see as the Kremlin using the church as an instrument of imperial control, and seek independence. |
| Russians in the faith argue that their Istanbul-based leader, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, above, has no right to remove the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from under the wing of the Moscow patriarchate without its consent. |
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