You should change the name of your DependencyProperty to the use the standard convention like PropertyNameProperty instead of naming like a field. When you set something in XAML it calls SetValue and expects the property to be named using the string name ("Template" here) followed by "Property".
Make sure that Template isn't a reserved word that is causing the XAML processor to get confused. Try a different word.
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