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The Moscow–Constantinople schism, also known as the Orthodox Church schism of 2018, is a schism which began on 15 October 2018 when the Russian Orthodox Church severed full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. This was done in response to a decision of the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 11 October 2018 to move towards granting independence (autocephaly) to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to reestablish "the Stavropegion of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Kyiv", to revoke the legal binding of the letter of 1686 establishing  Russian Orthodox Church jurisdiction over the Ukrainian Church, and to lift the excommunications which affected two Orthodox churches in Ukraine (the UAOC and the UOC-KP) which were competing with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) and were, and still are, considered schismatics by the Patriarchate of Moscow. This schism shares similarities to the Moscow–Constantinople schism of 1996 (22 years prior), which related to the canonical jurisdiction in Estonia.In a statement, the Russian Orthodox Church barred all members of the Moscow Patriarchate from taking part in communion, baptism, and marriage at any church controlled by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Prior to that, in their synod on 14 September 2018, the Moscow Patriarchate broke off participation in any episcopal assemblies (such as the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America), theological discussions, multilateral commissions, and any other structures that are chaired or co-chaired by representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest of the independent (autocephalous) churches that together make up the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Ecumenical Patriarchate holds a special place of honor within Orthodoxy because of its historical location at the capital of the former Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and its role as the mother church of most modern Orthodox churches. It serves as the seat for the Ecumenical Patriarch (currently Bartholomew I), who enjoys the status of primus inter pares (first among equals) among the world's Eastern Orthodox prelates and is widely regarded as the representative and spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians.Besides its religious aspect, both sides also see the dispute as part of a wider East-West conflict involving Russia's 2014 annexation of the Crimea and its military intervention in Ukraine, as well as Ukraine's desire to join the European Union and NATO.