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Article: The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia are reuniting after a schism of 80 years.(The Week)(Brief article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia are reuniting after a schism of 80 years. While the parent trunk of Orthodoxy made its peace with the Soviet Union, the Church Outside of Russia, headquartered in New York, served monarchist exiles. The rift was closed in a service at Butovo, a suburb of Moscow, where 20,000 believers were shot and killed by the NKVD in 1937-8. "This was a place of much sorrow, temptation, ...