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The head of Ukraine’s pro-Kyiv Orthodox Church visited the pontiff on his way to a sacred site in southern Italy. Despite worldwide recognition, Moscow has long deemed Ukraine’s church as schismatic.
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This is an Editorial reprinted with permission from the US-based The Ukrainian Weekly.
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