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Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Glossary

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Pravoslavna tserkva Ukrainy; OCU), also called Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine.^[1]

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Christian organizations established in 2018
Eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe
Greece–Russia relations
Ukrainian Orthodox church bodies

Akathist

An Akathist or Acathist Hymn (Ἀκάθιστος Ὕμνος, "unseated hymn") is a type of hymn usually recited by Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians, dedicated to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity.

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Alexis Tsipras

Alexis Tsipras (Αλέξης Τσίπρας,; born 28 July 1974) is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019.

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Anathema

The word anathema has two main meanings.

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Annexation of the Metropolis of Kyiv by the Moscow Patriarchate

The Accession of Kyiv Metropolis to Moscow Patriarchate was the transferance of the Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Eastern Orthodox from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Patriarchate of Moscow.

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Audience

An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called "readers"), theatre, music (in which they are called "listeners"), video games (in which they are called "players"), or academics in any medium.

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Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

On 5 January 2019, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, signed the tomos that officially recognized and established the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and granted it autocephaly (self-governorship).

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Bar, Ukraine

Bar (Бар; Bar; Бар) is a city located on the Riv River in Vinnytsia Oblast, the central Ukraine.

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Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000.

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Battle of Poltava

The Battle of Poltava (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Belgorod

Belgorod (Белгород,; Бєлгород or Білгород) is a city that serves as the administrative center of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seversky Donets River, approximately north of the border with Ukraine.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bila Tserkva

Bila Tserkva (Біла Церква) is a city in Central Ukraine, located on the Ros river in the historical Right Bank region.

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Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church

The Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, also known in English as the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Sveti arhijerejski sabor Srpske pravoslavne crkve) serves by Church constitution as the supreme body of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

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Bratslav

Bratslav (Брацлав) is a rural settlement in Ukraine, located in Tulchyn Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, by the Southern Bug river.

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Buchach

Buchach (Бучач; Buczacz; Betshotsh or ביטשאָטש (Bitshotsh); בוצ'אץ' Buchach; Butschatsch; Bucaş) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast (province) of Western Ukraine.

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Byzantine Rite

The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, is a liturgical rite that is identified with the wide range of cultural, devotional, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christian church of Constantinople.

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Caesaropapism

Caesaropapism is the idea of combining the social and political power of secular government with religious power, or of making secular authority superior to the spiritual authority of the Church, especially concerning the connection of the Church with government.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Cathedral

A cathedral is a church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII (Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden (including current Finland) from 1697 to 1718.

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Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast (Cherkaska oblast), also referred to as Cherkashchyna (Черкащина) is an oblast (province) in central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River.

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Chernihiv Oblast

Chernihiv Oblast (translit), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (Чернігівщина), is an oblast (province) in northern Ukraine.

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Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi (Чернівці,; Cernăuți,; see also other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River.

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Christianization of Kievan Rus'

The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages.

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Chrysostomos II of Cyprus

Chrysostomos II (Χρυσόστομος Β΄; born Irodotos Dimitriou; Greek: Ηρόδοτος Δημητρίου; 10 April 1941 – 7 November 2022), was the Archbishop of Cyprus from 2006 to 2022.

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Chrystia Freeland

Christina Alexandra Freeland (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian politician serving as the tenth and current deputy prime minister of Canada since 2019 and the minister of finance since 2020.

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Church of Cyprus

The Church of Cyprus (translit) is one of the autocephalous Greek Orthodox churches that together with other Eastern Orthodox churches form the communion of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and church of Cyprus are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe.

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Church of Greece

The Church of Greece (Ekklēsía tē̂s Helládos), part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, is one of the autocephalous churches which make up the communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and church of Greece are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe.

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Church of the Acheiropoietos

The Church of the Acheiropoietos (Ἀχειροποίητος) is a 5th-century Byzantine church in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia.

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Church Slavonic

Church Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.

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Chyhyryn

Chyhyryn (Чигирин,; Czehryń) is a city in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine.

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Civil calendar

The civil calendar is the calendar, or possibly one of several calendars, used within a country for civil, official, or administrative purposes.

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Communion under both kinds

Communion under both kinds in Christianity is the reception under both "species" (i.e., both the consecrated bread and wine) of the Eucharist.

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Conflict between Filaret and Epiphanius

In 2018, Filaret (primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate) and Metropolitan Epiphanius (primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine) came into conflict over disagreements concerning the model of governance, the management of the diaspora, and the name and the charter of the newly-formed Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

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Constitution

A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.

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Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk

The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk (Konstytutsiia Pylypa Orlyka), formally titled as The Treaties and Resolutions of the Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporozhian Army (Pacta et Constitutiones legum libertatumque Exercitus Zaporoviensis, Dohovory i Postanovlennia Prav i volʹnostei Viisʹka Zaporozʹkoho), is a constitutional document written by the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, Pylyp Orlyk, the Cossack elders and the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Army on the 5 April 1710 in the city of Bender (Tighina) in the Principality of Moldavia.

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Cossack Hetmanate

The Cossack Hetmanate (Hetmanshchyna; see other names), officially the Zaporozhian Host (Viisko Zaporozke; Exercitus Zaporoviensis), is a historical term for the 17th–18th centuries Ukrainian Cossack state located in central Ukraine.

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Council of Florence

The Council of Florence is the seventeenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held between 1431 and 1449.

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Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state.

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Diaspora

A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.

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Dionysius Balaban

Dionysius Balaban-Tukalskyi (Діонісій Балабан; ? – 10 May 1663, in Chyhyryn) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1657 to 1663.

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Dionysius IV of Constantinople

Dionysius IV Mouselimes (Διονύσιος Μουσελίμης; died 23 September 1696) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for five times, in 1671–73, 1676–79, 1682–84, 1686–87, and 1693–94.

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Directorate of Ukraine

The Directorate, or Directory was a provisional collegiate revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic, initially formed on 13–14 November 1918 during a session of the Ukrainian National Union in rebellion against the Ukrainian State.

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Divine Liturgy

Divine Liturgy (Theia Leitourgia) or Holy Liturgy is the usual name used in most Eastern Christian rites for the Eucharistic service.

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Dmitry Peskov

Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov (p; born 17 October 1967) is a Russian diplomat and the press secretary for Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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Dmitry Sablin

Dmitry Vadimovich Sablin (Дми́трий Вади́мович Са́блин; born September 5, 1968) is a Ukrainian-born Russian politician, who has served as a Member of the State Duma since 2016, having previously held the office between 2003 and 2013.

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Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (translit), is an oblast (province) in simultaneously southern, eastern and central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.

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Drohobych

Drohobych (Дрогобич,; Drohobycz; drohobitsh) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Eastern Orthodox theology

Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.

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Eastern Ukraine

Eastern Ukraine or east Ukraine (Skhidna Ukrayina; Vostochnaya Ukraina) is primarily the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (provinces).

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Ecclesiastical jurisdiction

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is jurisdiction by church leaders over other church leaders and over the laity.

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Ecumenical council

An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christian doctrine, administration, discipline, and other matters in which those entitled to vote are convoked from the whole world (oikoumene) and which secures the approbation of the whole Church.

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople

Bartholomew (Βαρθολομαῖος,; Bartholomeos; born 29 February 1940) is the 270th Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, since 2 November 1991.

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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople (translit) is the archbishop of Constantinople and primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that compose the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (translit,; Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constantinopolitanus; Rum Ortodoks Patrikhanesi, İstanbul Ekümenik Patrikhanesi, "Roman Orthodox Patriarchate, Ecumenical Patriarchate") is one of the fifteen to seventeen autocephalous churches (or "jurisdictions") that together compose the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Egoism

Egoism is a philosophy concerned with the role of the self, or, as the motivation and goal of one's own action.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Emblem

An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept, like a moral truth, or an allegory, or a person, like a monarch or saint.

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Eminence (style)

His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em. or HE) is a style of reference for high nobility, still in use in various religious contexts.

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Encyclopedia of Ukraine

The Encyclopedia of Ukraine (translit), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies.

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Eparchy of Kyiv (Orthodox Church of Ukraine)

Eparchy of Kyiv (Київська єпархія) is the central eparchy (diocese) and metropolis of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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Epiphanius I of Ukraine

Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine (translit, secular name: Serhii Petrovych Dumenko, Сергій Петрович Думенко; born on 3 February 1979) is the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), holding the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

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Episcopal polity

An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops.

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Ethnos (newspaper)

Ethnos (lit) is a Greek weekly newspaper first published in 1913.

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Euromaidan Press

Euromaidan Press (EP) is an English-language news website launched in 2014 by contributors from Ukraine, sponsored by reader contributions and the International Renaissance Foundation.

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Exarch

An exarch (from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος exarchos) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Federal Security Service

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.

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Filaret Denysenko

Patriarch Filaret (secular name Mykhailo Antonovych Denysenko, born 23 January 1929) is a Ukrainian religious leader, currently serving as the primate and Patriarch of the unrecognized Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate.

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First Council of Nicaea

The First Council of Nicaea (Sýnodos tês Nikaías) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.

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Gedeon Chetvertinsky

Gedeon Chetvertinsky (Гедеон, secular name Grigory Zakharovich Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky, Григорий Захарович Святополк-Четвертинский) was a Ruthenian prince and hierarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, who accepted allegiance to Moscow.

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Georgian Orthodox Church

The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia (tr), commonly known as the Georgian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church of Georgia, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with the other churches of Eastern Orthodoxy. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Georgian Orthodox Church are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe.

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Government of Russia

The government of Russia (Pravitelstvo Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the federal executive body of state power of the Russian Federation.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut (مطرانية الرومالأرثوذكس في بيروت) is one of the nineteen archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.

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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa (The Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa), also known as the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, is an autocephalous patriarchate that is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (Ελληνορθόδοξο Πατριαρχείο Αντιοχείας), also known as the Antiochian Orthodox Church and legally as the '''Rūm''' Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (lit), is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox church within the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity that originates from the historical Church of Antioch.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.

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Halych

Halych (Галич; Halici; Halicz; Galich; Halytsch, Halitsch or Galitsch; Heylitsh) is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine.

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Hetman

reason is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders (comparable to a field marshal or imperial marshal in the Holy Roman Empire).

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Hieromonk

A hieromonk (Ieromonachos; tr; Slavonic: Иеромонахъ, Ieromonah, Albanian: Hieromurg), also called a priestmonk, is a monk who is also a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholicism.

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Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church

The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Sveti arhijerejski sinod Srpske pravoslavne crkve) serves by Church constitution as the executive body of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

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Ieronymos II of Athens

Ieronymos II (Ierōnymos II,; born 10 March 1938) is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece.

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Interfax

Interfax (Интерфакс) is a Russian news agency.

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Irinej Bulović

Irinej Bulović (born Mirko Bulović; 11 February 1947) is a Serbian Orthodox cleric and the current Bishop of Bačka.

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Isaiah Kopinsky

Isaiah Kopinsky (b ? in Galicia region – 5 October 1640) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1631 to 1632.

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Isidore of Kiev

Isidore of Kiev, also known as Isidore of Thessalonica (1385 – 27 April 1463), was a prelate of Byzantine Greek origin.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Istorychna Pravda

Istorychna Pravda (Історична правда) is a Ukrainian online publication on sociology, history, and science.

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Ivan Mazepa

Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (Іван Степанович Мазепа; Iwan Mazepa Kołodyński) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708.

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Ivan Sydor

Ivan Andriiovych Sydor (Іван Андрійович Сидор, born 19 January 1989, Sokal, Lviv Oblast) is a Ukrainian church and public figure, theologian, teacher, Candidate of Sciences in Theology (2014).

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Ivano-Frankivsk

Ivano-Frankivsk (Івано-Франківськ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine.

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Job Boretsky

Job Boretsky (Йов, secular name Ivan Matfeyevich Boretsky, Iwan Borecki, died 2 March 1631) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1620 to 1631.

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Jonah of Moscow

Jonah of Moscow (Iona; died 31 March 1461) was Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' from 1448 until his death in 1461.

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Joseph II of Constantinople

Joseph II (Greek: Ἰωσήφ; 1360 – 10 June 1439) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 1416 to 1439.

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Kastellorizo

Kastellorizo or Castellorizo (Kastellórizo), officially Megisti (Μεγίστη Megísti), is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Kathimerini

Kathimerini (Greek: Η Καθημερινή) is a daily, political and financial morning newspaper published in Piraeus, Athens.

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Kharkiv Oblast

Kharkiv Oblast (Kharkivska oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (Харківщина), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine.

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Kherson

Kherson (Ukrainian and) is a port city in Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast.

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Khmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi (Хмельницький) is a city in western Ukraine.

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Khotyn

Khotyn (Хотин,; Hotin,; see other names) is a city in Dnistrovskyi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, located south-west of Kamianets-Podilskyi.

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Khust

Khust (Хуст, Хуст, Huszt, Chust, Hust, כוסט (Khist)) is a city located on the Khustets River in Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine.

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Kitsman

Kitsman (Kicmań,; Coțmani, older Cozmeni or Chițmani; Kotzman) is a city located in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, in the historical region of Bukovina of western Ukraine.

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Kolomyia

Kolomyia, formerly known as Kolomea (translit,; Kołomyja; Kolomea; Colomeea; קאָלאָמיי|translit.

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Konstanty Ostrogski

Konstiantyn Iwanowycz Ostrosky (– 10 August 1530; Konstantinas Ostrogiškis; translit; translit) was a Ruthenian prince and magnate of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Koutloumousiou Monastery

The Koutloumousiou Monastery (Μονή Κουτλουμουσίου) or Koutloumousi (Κουτλουμούσι) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece.

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Kropyvnytskyi

Kropyvnytskyi (Кропивницький) is a city in central Ukraine, situated on the Inhul River.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Kyiv Post

The Kyiv Post is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.

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Lazar Baranovych

Lazar Baranovych or Baranovich (Лазар Баранович, Лазарь Баранович, Łazarz Baranowicz; 1620 – 3 (13) September 1693 in Chernihiv, Tsardom of Russia) was a Ruthenian Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and then of the Tsardom of Russia.

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Lemnos

Lemnos or Limnos (Λήμνος; Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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Limassol

Limassol (Lemesós; Limasol or Leymosun) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the Limassol district.

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List of archbishops of Cyprus

This is a list of Archbishops of Cyprus since its foundation with known dates of enthronement.

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List of hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church

This is the list of the hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church, depicting the organization of the church.

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List of islands of Greece

Greece has many islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account.

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List of metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow

This article lists the metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow, spiritual heads of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Liturgical year

The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of scripture are to be read.

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Liturgy

Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.

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Locum

A locum, or locum tenens, is a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another; the term is especially used for physicians or clergy.

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Luhansk

Luhansk (Луганськ), also known as Lugansk (Луганск), is a city in the Donbas region, eastern Ukraine.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Macarius of Lviv

Metropolitan Macarius of Lviv (translit, secular name: Mykola Ivanovych Maletych, Микола Іванович Малетич.; born on 1 October 1944) is a bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) and a permanent member of the Standing Holy Synod of the OCU, holding the title of Metropolitan of Lviv.

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Major archbishop

In the Eastern Catholic Churches, major archbishop (sometimes also styled as major archeparch) is a title for the chief hierarch ("Father and Head") of an autonomous (sui juris) particular Church that has not been "endowed with the patriarchal title".

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Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'

The Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus' (Mitropolit Kiyevskiy i vseya Rusi) was a metropolis of the Eastern Orthodox Church that was erected on the territory of Kievan Rus'.

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Metropolis of Kyiv

The Metropolis of Kyiv (Mitrópolis Kiévou; Kyivska mytropoliia; Кіеўская мітраполія, Kijeŭskaja mitrapolija) was an autonomous metropolis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with center in Kyiv after its formation in 988 as a result of the Christianization of Rus by Volodymyr the Great until January 6, 2019, when it received the Tomos on Autocephaly.

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Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine

The Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine is the metropolitan bishop who is the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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Michael Rohoza

Michael Rohoza (died 1599) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Patriarchate of Constantinople of the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1588 to 1596.

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Mike Pompeo

Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician who served in the administration of Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021.

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Minister for National Defence (Greece)

The minister for national defence of Greece (Υπουργός Εθνικής Άμυνας) is a government minister responsible for the running of the Ministry of National Defence.

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Monk

A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mother church

Mother church or matrice is a term depicting the Christian Church as a mother in her functions of nourishing and protecting the believer.

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Mount Athos

Mount Athos (Ἄθως) is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece.

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Mstyslav Skrypnyk

Patriarch Mstyslav, secular name Stepan Ivanovych Skrypnyk (10 April 1898 – 11 June 1993), was a Ukrainian Orthodox Church hierarch.

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Mufti

A mufti (مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion (fatwa) on a point of Islamic law (sharia).

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Mukachevo

Mukachevo (Мукачево,; Munkács; see name section) is a city in Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine.

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Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv (Миколаїв,; Nikolayev) is a city and a hromada (municipality) in southern Ukraine.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Nezavisimaya Gazeta

(t) is a Russian daily newspaper.

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Nicaea

Nicaea (also spelled Nicæa or Nicea), also known as Nikaia (Νίκαια, Attic:, Koine), was an ancient Greek city in the north-western Anatolian region of Bithynia that is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Christian Church), the Nicene Creed (which comes from the First Council), and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until the recapture of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261.

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Nikos Dendias

Nikolaos "Nikos" Dendias (Νικόλαος Δένδιας; born 7 October 1959) is a Greek lawyer and politician of the conservative New Democracy party who has been serving as Minister for National Defence in the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis since 2023.

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Novinite

Novinite is a Bulgarian English-language news provider based in Sofia.

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Odesa

Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.

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Old Calendarists

Old Calendarists (Greek: palaioimerologitai or palaioimerologites), also known as Old Feasters (palaioeortologitai), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC), are traditionalist groups of Eastern Orthodox Christians who separated from mainstream Eastern Orthodox churches because some of the latter adopted the revised Julian calendar while Old Calendarists remained committed to the Julian calendar.

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Orans of Kyiv

The Virgin Orans, Oranta (The Great Panagia) (Оранта) is a well-known Orthodox Christian depiction of the Virgin Mary in prayer with extended arms.

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Ordination

Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform various religious rites and ceremonies.

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Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.

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Ovruch

Ovruch (Овруч) is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine.

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Panos Kammenos

Panagiotis "Panos" Kammenos (Παναγιώτης "Πάνος" Καμμένος,; born 12 May 1965) is a Greek politician and the founder of the right-wing party "Independent Greeks", which formed the governing coalition of the Hellenic Parliament with the Syriza Party after Kammenos met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, on 26 January 2015.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

Kirill or Cyril (Кирилл, font, secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Владимир Михайлович Гундяев; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop.

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Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'

The Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (translit), also known as the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, is the title of the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria

Theodore (Theodoros) II (Πάπας και Πατριάρχης Αλεξανδρείας και πάσης Αφρικής Θεόδωρος Β΄; born Nikolaos Khoreftakis (Νικόλαος Χορευτάκης), November 25, 1954) is the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa.

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Pereiaslav

Pereiaslav is a historical city in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, central Ukraine.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Petro Mohyla

Petro Mohyla (born Petru Movilă; 21 December 1596 –) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1633 to 1646.

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Polish Orthodox Church

The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polski Autokefaliczny Kościół Prawosławny), commonly known as the Polish Orthodox Church, or Orthodox Church of Poland, is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches in full communion. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Polish Orthodox Church are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe.

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Politis (Cyprus)

Politis (Πολίτης, meaning "Citizen") is a daily Greek-language daily national newspaper published in Cyprus.

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Poltava

Poltava (Полтава) is a city located on the Vorskla River in Central Ukraine.

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President of Russia

The president of the Russian Federation (Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the executive head of state of Russia.

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Primate (bishop)

Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some important archbishops in certain Christian churches.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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Razumkov Centre

Razumkov Centre (Центр Разумкова), or fully the Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies named after Olexander Razumkov (Український центр економічнихі політичнихдосліджень імені Олександра Разумкова), is a Ukrainian non-governmental public policy think tank.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine

Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine "Ummah" (Духовне управління мусульман України «Умма».) – union of religious communities of Muslims of Ukraine, established for coordination of actions and providing conditions for worship and preaching of Sunni tradition of Islam.

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Revised Julian calendar

The Revised Julian calendar, or less formally the new calendar and also known as the Milanković calendar, is a calendar proposed in 1923 by the Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković as a more accurate alternative to both Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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RIA Novosti

RIA Novosti (РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN or RIA (label), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency.

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Rivne

Rivne (Рівне) is a city in western Ukraine.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Russian Orthodox Church are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe.

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Ruthenian Uniate Church

The Ruthenian Uniate Church (Ruskaja unijackaja carkva; Rus'ka uniyna tserkva; Ecclesia Ruthena unita; Ruski Kościół Unicki) was a particular church of the Catholic Church in the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Ruthenian Voivodeship

The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Palatinatus russiae; Województwo ruskie; Ruske voievodstvo) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with its center in the city of Lwów (now Lviv).

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Sacrament

A sacrament is a Christian rite that is recognized as being particularly important and significant.

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Said Ismagilov

Sheikh Said Ismagilov (Сергій Валерійович Ісмагілов) - Mufti of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine “Ummah”, one of Muslim spiritual leaders of Ukraine, President of All-Ukrainian Public Organization “Ukrainian Center for Islamic Studies”, the Head of Muslim Community “Nur” of Donetsk city, the member of Public Organization “Al-Amal” of Donetsk city.

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Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv

Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kievan Rus'.

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Sambir

Sambir (Самбір, Sambor, Sambor) is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Schism

A schism (or, less commonly) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination.

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Security Council of Russia

The Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF or Sovbez; Sovet bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (SBRF)) is a constitutional consultative body of the Russian president that supports the president's decision-making on national security affairs and matters of strategic interest.

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Septuagint

The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.

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Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Сергей Викторович Лавров; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat who has served as the foreign minister of Russia since 2004.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.

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Sic

The Latin adverb sic (thus, so, and in this manner) inserted after a quotation indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated as found in the source text, including erroneous, archaic, or unusual spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

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Simony

Simony is the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things.

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Sin

In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities.

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Skete

A skete is a monastic community in Eastern Christianity that allows relative isolation for monks, but also allows for communal services and the safety of shared resources and protection.

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Sloviansk

Sloviansk is a city in Donetsk Oblast, northern part of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

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Sokal

Sokal (Сокаль, romanized: Sokal) is a city located on the Bug River in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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St Volodymyr's Cathedral

St Volodymyr's Cathedral (Володимирський собор) is a cathedral in the centre of Kyiv, and one of the city's major landmarks.

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St. George's Cathedral, Istanbul

The Patriarchal Cathedral Church of St.

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St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery

St.

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Sumy

Sumy (Суми) is a city in northeastern Ukraine.

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Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Святосла́в Шевчу́к; born 5 May 1970 in Stryi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Catholic prelate who has served as the Major Archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) since 25 March 2011.

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Sylvester Kosiv

Sylvester Kossów, Kosiv or Kosov (secular name Stefan-Adam Kosaw, Sylwester Kossów; born Zharobychi, Vitebsk Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, died 13 April 1657) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1647 to 1657.

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Symeon Shostatsky

Metropolitan Symeon (also romanized Simeon; born Volodymyr Ivanovych Shostatsky, Володимир Іванович Шостацький) is a bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and a member of its Holy Synod.

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Symon Petliura

Symon Vasyliovych Petliura (Симон Васильович Петлюра; – 25 May 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist.

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TASS

The Russian News Agency TASS, or simply TASS, is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904.

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Terebovlia

Terebovlia (Теребовля; Trembowla; Trembovla) is a small city in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine.

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Ternopil

Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret.

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The Australian

The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.

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The Bible and homosexuality

There are a number of passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament that have been interpreted as involving same-sex sexual activity and relationships.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church)

A (translit) in the Eastern Orthodox Church is a decree of the head of a particular Eastern Orthodox church on certain matters (such as the level of dependence of an autonomous church from its mother church).

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Tsardom of Russia

The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.

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Tulchyn

Tulchyn (Tulcinum; Tulczyn; Tulchin; טולטשין; Tulcin) is a city in Vinnytsia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, in the historical region of Podolia.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC; Ukrayinska avtokefalna pravoslavna tserkva (UAPTs)) was one of the three major Eastern Orthodox churches in Ukraine in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, together with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe.

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Ukrainian Baroque

Ukrainian Baroque (Українське бароко), also known as Cossack Baroque (Козацьке бароко) or Mazepa Baroque, is an architectural style that was widespread in the Ukrainian lands in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Ukrainian diaspora

The Ukrainian diaspora comprises Ukrainians and their descendants who live outside Ukraine around the world, especially those who maintain some kind of connection to the land of their ancestors and maintain their feeling of Ukrainian national identity within their own local community.

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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a major archiepiscopal sui iuris ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINM, Ukrainskyi Instytut Natsionalnoi Pamiati), also translated as the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, is the central executive body operating under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

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Ukrainian language

Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), commonly referred to by the exonym Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe and Ukrainian Orthodox church bodies.

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP; Ukrainska Pravoslavna Tserkva — Kyivskyi Patriarkhat (UPTs-KP)) was an Orthodox church in Ukraine, in existence from 1992 to 2018. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate are eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Europe.

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC; Église orthodoxe ukrainienne du Canada; Ουκρανική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία τουΚαναδά; translit) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Canada, primarily consisting of Orthodox Ukrainian Canadians. Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada are Ukrainian Orthodox church bodies.

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Ukrainians

Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.

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Ukrainska Pravda

Ukrainska Pravda (lit) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum).

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Ukrinform

The National News Agency of Ukraine (Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform (Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine.

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Unification council of the Eastern Orthodox churches of Ukraine

The Unification council of the Eastern Orthodox churches of Ukraine (Sobor of Ukrainian (Eastern) Orthodox Churches) is a council which was held on 15 December 2018 in the St Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv.

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Union of Brest

The Union of Brest took place in 1595-1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to accept the Pope's authority while maintaining Eastern Orthodox liturgical practices, leading to the formation of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, which currently exists as the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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Uzhhorod

Uzhhorod (Ужгород) is a city and municipality on the Uzh River in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary.

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Vasily II of Moscow

Vasily II Vasilyevich (Василий II Васильевич; 10 March 141527 March 1462), nicknamed the Blind or the Dark (Тёмный), was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1425 until his death in 1462.

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Vasyl Lypkivsky

Vasyl Kostiantynovych Lypkivsky (Василь Костянтинович Липківський; 7 September 1864 – 27 November 1937) was the founder of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the first auto-consecrated "Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine" (1921–1927).

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Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia (Вінниця) is a city in Central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.

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Vladimir the Great

Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych (Volodiměr Svętoslavič; Christian name: Basil; 15 July 1015), given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015. The Eastern Orthodox Church canonised him as Saint Vladimir.

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Volhynian Orthodox Theological Academy

The Volhynian Orthodox Theological Academy (formerly the Volhynian Theological Seminary) is a higher educational institution with a six-year term of study that trains priests, workers of diocesan administrations and missions for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

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Volodymyr, Volyn Oblast

Volodymyr (Володимир), previously known as Volodymyr-Volynskyi (label) from 1944 to 2021, is a small city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine.

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Volyn Oblast

Volyn Oblast (translit) or simply Volyn (translit) is an oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine.

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Vyshneve, Kyiv Oblast

Vyshneve (Вишневе) is a city in Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located south of the capital Kyiv.

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Western Ukraine

Western Ukraine (Zakhidna Ukraina) or West Ukraine refers to the western territories of Ukraine.

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Xenophontos Monastery

Xenophontos Monastery (Μονή Ξενοφώντος) is an Orthodox Christian monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece.

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Yaroslav the Wise

Yaroslav I Vladimirovich (978 – 20 February 1054), better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054.

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Zakarpattia Oblast

Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian: Закарпатська область), also referred to as simply Zakarpattia (Закарпаття; Hungarian: Kárpátalja) or Transcarpathia in English, is an oblast in west Ukraine, mostly coterminous with the historical region of Carpathian Ruthenia.

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Zaporizhzhia

Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя,; Zaporozhye), formerly known as Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River.

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Zeitoun, Cairo

Zeitoun (الزيتون meaning olives), also al-Zeitoun, is one of the eight districts that make up the Northern Area in Cairo, Egypt.

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Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr (Житомир; see below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine.

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1991 Ukrainian independence referendum

A referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991.

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2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism

The Eastern Schism, also known as the 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, is a schism between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC, also known as the Moscow Patriarchate) and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which began on 15 October 2018 when the former unilaterally severed full communion with the latter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine

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