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The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which didn’t recognize the authority of the Russian church and had been regarded as schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy’s top authority.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which didn’t recognize the authority of the Russian church and had been regarded as schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy’s top authority.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which didn’t recognize the authority of the Russian church and had been regarded as schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy’s top authority.

The glow from his American visit — he also traveled to Washington — faded in January 2009, when Benedict precipitated his papacy’s deepest crisis by lifting the excommunications of four schismatic bishops, members of the Society of Saint Pius X. Among them was Bishop Williamson, who had not only denied the extent of the Holocaust but also contended that the United States had staged the Sept. 11 attacks as a pretext to invade Afghanistan.

“Until that step was taken, Kirill and everyone else could always refer to the various Ukrainian churches as schismatic,” Wanner said.