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Metropolitan Hilarion, who leads the Russian Orthodox Church's foreign relations, announces on Oct. 15 that the Russian Orthodox Church was severing its ties with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I after the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community granted a Ukrainian church independence from the Moscow Patriarchate. The dispute marks one of the biggest Orthodox schisms in the past millennium.