The Polish Orthodox Church

The Orthodox of the lands that became interwar Poland received a tomos of autocephaly from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1924, which Moscow did not accept; Moscow granted its own in 1948, which is why the church keeps two dates. Its people are largely the Orthodox of the eastern borderlands and the Lemkos deported westward in 1947. The monastery on the Holy Mountain of Grabarka, covered in the crosses pilgrims carry up to it, is its best known place. It is small, around half a million faithful, and it holds a position of some delicacy between the Slavic churches.