| Crimean Metropolia | |
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Кримська митрополія | |
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| Location | Simferopol, Ukraine |
| Country |  Ukraine |
Metropolis of Crimea is an illegally created Metropolitanate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the territory of Russian-occupied Crimea. [1]
| Crimean Metropolia | |
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Кримська митрополія | |
| | |
| Location | Simferopol, Ukraine |
| Country | Ukraine |
Metropolis of Crimea is an illegally created Metropolitanate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the territory of Russian-occupied Crimea. [1]
It was founded on June 7, 2022, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church with the territory of the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. [2] The Russian Orthodox Church illegally incorporated Dzhankoi into the Crimean Metropolitanate, Simferopol, and Theodosiya dioceses, which are part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. [3] [4]
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