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*1941-45 Croatian [[w:Ustaše|Ustasa]] terrorists [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e#Genocide kill] 500,000 Orthodox Serbs, expel 250,000 and force 250,000 to convert to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]].
*1943 [[Church of Russia]] recognizes [[autocephaly]] of [[Church of Georgia]]; first constitution of the African Orthodox Church in East Africa signed by Reuben Spartas and Arthur Gathuna; Joseph Stalin meets with hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church to establish a "patriotic union," granting concessions to the church, including the gathering of the holy synod and the election of [[Sergius I (Stragorodsky) of Moscow|Sergius I]] as Patriarch of Moscow.
*1943-44 Hundreds of Orthodox priests of the [[Church of Ukraine|Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] were eliminated, tortured and drowned by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - [[w:Ukrainian Insurgent Army|Ukrainian Rebel Army]] (OUN-UPA); [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Uniate]] Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj was a spiritual leader of the Nazi Western-Ukrainian military units [[w:14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galicia (1st Ukrainian)|SS-Galichina division]] and the Wehrmacht [[w:Nachtigall Battalion|Nachtigal battalion]], which were condemned by the Nuremberg tribunal, and was subsequently imprisoned.
*1945 [[Church of Bulgaria]]'s [[autocephaly]] generally recognized; library of early Christian texts discovered at Nag Hammadi in Egypt; Soviet Union annexes Czechoslovakia; [[Church of Russia]] claims jurisdiction over the [[Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia]].
*1946 Reuben Spartas of the African Orthodox Church visits Alexandria; Holy Synod of the [[Church of Alexandria]] officially recognizes and accepts the African Greek Orthodox Church in Kenya and Uganda; a state-sponsored synod is held at Lviv, Ukraine in March, which officially dissolved the [[Union of Brest-Litovsk]], and re-integrated the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) into the Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet authorities arresting resisters or deporting them to Siberia.
