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Church split healed

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Russia's Orthodox Church and its foreign-based sister Church are set to re-unite later this week, ending an eight-decade-long split in the Church and in Russian society in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, formed by priests who fled Communist Russia, severed all ties with the Church in Moscow when the latter declared loyalty to the new atheist regime. The Church abroad has over 300 parishes in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad arrived in Moscow on Monday to sign an "act of restoration of canonical relations". President Vladimir Putin, who helped heal the Church rift, is expected to attend the signing ceremony and the first joint Mass by clergymen from the two Churches.

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