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Article: Putin helps end long Russian church rift.(News)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- June 12, 2007
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The Russian Orthodox Church and an emigre church that broke ties in 1927 over a Russian church leader's declaration of loyalty to the Soviet state have officially reunited at a ceremony in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
"Church divisions are being overcome, and the confrontation in society inherited from the times of the revolution is being beaten back," said Patriarch Alexsy II of the Russian Orthodox Church after the signing of an act of canonical union May 17. This was followed by his first joint liturgy with Metropolitan Laurus of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR).
The event, attended by Russian president Vladimir Putin ...