Patriarch Bartholomew signed the Tomos of autocephaly of the "new Church" of Ukraine
. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed the Tomos of autocephaly of the "new Church" of Ukraine, led the Ukrainian TV channels.
Before the ceremony, held a prayer service in the Church of St. George in Istanbul, and was attended by the head of the "new Church" of Ukraine Epiphany.
the event was also attended by Petro Poroshenko with his wife Marina, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy, the head of the Ministry of economic development, Stepan Kubiv, head of the defense Ministry Stepan Poltorak, the ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and others.
Fifteenth day of December in Kiev on the initiative of Peter Poroshenko and Bartholomew held a "unification Council" with the participation of the majority of commissioners non-canonical Church structures.
The outcome of the event was the election of the head of the new "Autocephalous churches" Epiphany Dumenko.
in the Russian Orthodox Church the canonical value for "Assembly" in Kiev declared null and void, and the possibility of recognizing the Epiphany almost unworkable.
Rada adopted the law on the transfer of St. Andrew's Church the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
to the jurisdiction of Constantinople and the new structure is expected to translate a few dozen parishes.
not so long ago, Bartholomew sent a letter to the archbishops, patriarchs and heads of local Orthodox churches with a call to recognize " the new Ukrainian Church."
Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland Savva said in response that the Polish Church does not recognize the schismatic structure, and the "unification Council" did not decide the issue of schism, and only further complicated it.
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