CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 9, 1996 | JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
During Lent, Christianity's season of fasting and penitence, a quarrel has grabbed hold of the Orthodox Church that is so acrimonious that priests and experts say it could ultimately lead to the greatest split in Christendom in more than 900 years. At immediate issue are souls, churches, monasteries and 8,750 acres in the small Baltic nation of Estonia.