In an open letter, priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate called on their leader Onufriy to definitively sever ties with Russia.
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(RNS) The Orthodox Church of Ukraine has further cemented its split from the Russian counterpart it used to be a part of by adopting a new liturgical calendar.