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The '''Orthodox Church of France''' (''l'Eglise Orthodoxe de France'', also formerly ''l'Eglise Catholique Orthodoxe de France'', a.k.a. or ''l'ECOF'') is an autonomous diocese of [[Western Rite]] parishes in France formed in 1936 by the [[Church of Russia]]. The Orthodox Church of France is currently neither recognized by nor in communion with any of the [[List of autocephalous and autonomous churches|autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox Churches]].
==History==
In 2001, after the scandal caused by the revelation inside the Church of the marriage of Bishop Germain in 1995 (which was later legally annulled), some priests and parishes led by Archpriest Jean-Pierre Pahud left the Church of France and formed the ''Union des Associations Cultuelles Orthodoxes de Rite Occidental'' (UACORO) (the Union of Western Rite Orthodox Worship Associations). Many of these have subsequently been received on an individual basis into the Church of Serbia in 2006. In the same year, the independent [[Orthodox Church of the Gauls]] was formed by a group that years earlier had left the Church of France and come under the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
==Sources==
*Vincent Bourne, ''La divine contradiction: l'avenir catholique orthodoxe de la France'' (1975). ISBN 9782850800030. Bourne was the ''nom-de-plume'' of Madmae Yvonne Winnaert (1907-1997, the widow of Louis-Charles (Irénée) Winnaert.
*Maxime Kovalevsky, ''Orthodoxie et Occident: renaissance d'une Eglise locale'' (1994). ISBN 9782908986297
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