Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar. This year’s holiday was the first for Ukraine’s newly unified, national Orthodox Church, independent from Russian control for the first time since the 17th century.
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Believers wait in line to see the tomos of autocephaly (autonomy proclamation) of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine which is set to display in Saint Sophia cathedral in Kyiv on Jan. 7, 2019.
