The Estonian Interior Ministry has reached a provisional agreement with both the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church under the Constantinople Patriarchate and the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Estonia to share the use of existing church property after a nearly decade-long dispute, BNS reported on 29 August. RFE/RL – 30 August 2002 – Under the […]

An ongoing debate between two rival branches of the Estonian Orthodox Church has underscored continued tensions between the Baltic country’s Russians and ethnic Estonians. After Estonia regained its independence in 1991, the country’s single Soviet-era Orthodox Church split into two branches. One — the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, under jurisdiction of Constantinople — was registered […]