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He said over 100 parishes have already indicated their intention to join the new church.
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"This is the foundation of our spiritual freedom. We have torn off the last chains that tied us to Moscow with its fantasies of Ukraine as a canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church," Poroshenko said.
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