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The first Russian Orthodox church to be built in Rome, a Catholic city, in over a thousand years.
There are more than 900 churches in Rome, but this one stands out from the rest. The 950 years that followed saw less than accommodative stances between the two Christian groups, though things have been warming up for some time now. In 2004, the Church of the Great Martyr Saint Catherine became the first Russian Orthodox church built in the holy city since 1054, when the churches split in an event known as "The Great Schism."
