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sed burial of an Christian Orthodox patriarch outside a cathedral in Kiev. More than 1,000 mourners had carried the coffin of the Patriarch of Kiev and All Ukraine, Volodymyr to his burial site. The Orthodox believers were intending to bury their religious leader in the grounds of the main Sofia cathedral, but police used force to stop the ceremony as the Patriarch's grave was being dug. As a temporary measure, police allowed mourners to bury the patriarch beneath the pavement in front of the cathedral. SHOWS: KIEV, UKRAINE, 18/7 pan across crowd of mourners gathered outside sofia cathedral gv interior cathedral funeral service inside cathedral procession with coffin past mourners outside cathedral priest breaking through police line police holding back crowd line of police with shields tear gas being sprayed on crowd police clubbing several people police running cu former ukrainian president leonid kravchuk (who blamed city officials for the violence) high shot of procession carrying coffin 1.35 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/43bdde348f6129a8612d78fe20b1ecf4