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To: Solon
And btw, that web site was certainly not complimentary towards the Russian Orthodox church. Did you read it? What were you thinking?

I knew you were going to say that, that is why I picked it. Let us see you claim it as a biased source now.

And as it stated: The Bolsheviks proved far more successful in promoting nationalist splits within the church than they had with the obnovlentsy; in fact, they turned out to be too successful for their own interests. In order to fracture Russian Orthodoxy from within, the Kremlin encouraged, or at least did not impede, the flourishing of Ukrainian and Belorussian splinter groups such as the Ukrainian Autonomous and the Ukrainian Autocephalous churches. Whereas the former, as the name implies, sought to establish a degree of distance between Muscovite authority and the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the latter wanted outright ecclesiastical independence from Russian authority.

54 posted on 04/12/2005 4:39:57 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: Destro
You just don't get it. Those churches are not Catholic.

And that attempt lasted what 8 years?

The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church at the beginning of the 1930s was liquidated.

Now go read a book.

56 posted on 04/12/2005 6:16:26 PM PDT by Solon
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