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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople kisses Metropolitan Epiphanius Dumenko, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Jan. 6, as he hands him a decree granting the Orthodox Church of Ukraine independence, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey. (CNS/Murad Sezer, Reuters)