Russian Orthodox Church breaks communion with Constantinople
On 15 October 2018, meeting in Minsk, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church cut eucharistic communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate after Bartholomew I's synod moved toward recognising an independent Ukrainian church. Until Constantinople reversed course, Russian clergy were barred from serving alongside its clergy and Russian laity from taking sacraments in its churches.
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On 15 October 2018, meeting in Minsk, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church cut eucharistic communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate after Bartholomew I's synod moved toward recognising an independent Ukrainian church. Until Constantinople reversed course, Russian clergy were barred from serving alongside its clergy and Russian laity from taking sacraments in its churches.
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Patriarch Bartholomew I
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Russian Orthodox Church breaks communion with Constantinople. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.old.mospat.ru — sourceold.mospat.ru · verified
- 2.vaticannews.vachecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: communion+constantinople · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Russian Orthodox Church breaks communion with Constantinople. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/russian-church-breaks-with-constantinople-2018-10-15
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