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Greek state to take 10,000 clergy off public payroll
By EUobserver
Greece has taken one step closer to the separation of church and state by removing 10,000 church employees off the public payroll. A deal agreed between prime minister Alexis Tsipras and archbishop Ieronymos II also includes a settlement of a decade-old property dispute between the Greek state and the Orthodox Church - which is one of the country's largest real estate owners.