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Article: RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH BACKS REFORMS AS 1,000-YEAR JUBILEE OPENS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 1988
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MOSCOW - The Russian Orthodox Church launched a yearlong
celebration of its 1,000th anniversary yesterday with a special
liturgy and a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier near the Kremlin.
"We are glad that our jubilee coincides with this very
beneficial period in Soviet history," senior church official
Metropolitan Filaret said.
About 500 religious representatives from more than 100
countries, including a high-ranking Vatican delegation, and several
thousand worshipers crowded the Patriarchal Cathedral of the
Epiphany to hear the liturgy led by Moscow's Patriarch Pimen.
"The Russian Orthodox Church blesses wholeheartedly the good
developments in this country ...