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  1. Any of the Orthodox churches that accept the
  2. Catholic faith and the supremacy of the pope,
  3. and are in full communion with the Roman
  4. Catholic Church, but retain their own liturgy
  5. and separate organization. In the Ukraine,
  6. USSR, despite being proscribed 1946-89, the
  7. Uniate Church claimed some 4.5 million
  8. adherents when it was once more officially
  9. recognized.
  10.