“It was a Sunday morning, and I was photographing at the thousand-year-old Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastic complex that is the crown jewel of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. A few days later, the Ecumenical Patriarch announced its support for Ukraine’s effort to create an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, moving out from under Moscow’s patronage for the first time since 1686. It’s a move with long historical roots that was finally realized due to current political tensions. It has incensed the Russian Orthodox Church leadership, who have threatened break from the church leadership in Istanbul in Christianity’s biggest rupture in a thousand years while putting the stewardship of the Pechersk Lavra in question.”

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