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Bishop Ioan of Soroca, Vicar of the Metropolitanate of Moldova belonging to the Russian patriarchate, looks on inside his office as a photograph on a wall depicts the Russia’s Patriarch Kirill, in Chisinau.
Long torn between loyalty to the Russian or Romanian Orthodox Church, the Moldovan village of Cimiseni has made its choice, triggered by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
The parish in the village near the capital Chisinau, whose 2 850 inhabitants mostly speak Romanian, is one of a growing number that have switched allegiance from Moscow to Bucharest.
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