KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Orthodox leaders on Saturday approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head that new church — a move that could exponentially raise tensions with neighboring Russia. The vote, held at a closed-door synod in Kiev’s St. Sophia Cathedral, is the latest in a series of confrontations between Ukraine and authorities in Russia, including President Vladimir Putin’s government.
Ukraine Orthodox Leaders Approve Russian Church Split
YURAS KARMANAU and EFREM LUKATSKY, YURAS KARMANAU and EFREM LUKATSKY, Associated Press, The Columbian
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