About 20 years ago, the Russian state began a large-scale operation to take control of Orthodox parishes all over Europe. Some of these had, over time, broken ties with the Moscow patriarchate.

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She grew up in the Antiochian Orthodox Church, sister to the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches. Her family lived two blocks from their church. Her family and the priest's family were close.