The Russian Orthodox Church today formally ended an 80-year global schism triggered when exiles refused to accept the domestic church’s subservience to the Soviet state. In a ceremony at Christ the Savior Cathedral, which was rebuilt in the 1990s after being torn down by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, the top leaders of the domestic and … Continue reading Patriarch Alexei, Mnogaya Lyeta! Metropolitan Laurus, Mnogaya Lyeta!