Abkhazia: Breakaway Church Confronts Its Own Breakaway Bid

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At the entrance to the cathedral in the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi, one Saturday this summer, women kissed the hand of the white-bearded Father Vissarion Apliaa, the self-declared "interim bishop of the Abkhaz Orthodox Church." Devotional items were displayed on a table near the door, including small pictures of the slain Russian Tsar Nicholas II and ... (more)

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Georgian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, and all Orthodox Churches need to unite again with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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