Bartholomew gave Ukraine the Tomos of autocephaly of new Church structures
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew gave Ukraine the document on the independence of the new Church structure, the Ceremony is broadcast on television channel " Straight ".
Bartholomew presented the head of the "new Ukrainian Church" Epiphany Dumenko staff and document on the independence of the Church structure After the morning prayer in the Patriarchal Church of St. George.
Those present applauded, someone shouted nationalist slogan " Glory to Ukraine! Glory To The Heroes!".
The ceremony was attended by the head Petro Poroshenko with his wife Marina, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy, the head of the Ministry of economic development, Stepan Kubiv, and others.
The Tomos of autocephaly of the "new Church" of Ukraine Patriarch Bartholomew signed yesterday.
The new Church structure is not recognized by Any Church, except Constantinople. Neither the Commissioner of the local Orthodox churches were not present at the ceremony.
at the beginning of winter in Kiev was held the "unification Council" initiated by the President and the Patriarch Bartholomew. There Authorized non-canonical Church structures has chosen the head of the "new Church" of the Epiphany.
the results of the Council it was decided to transfer to the jurisdiction of Constantinople a few dozen parishes. So, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the law on the transfer of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, St. Andrew's Church.
After the signing of the Tomos paruby said that about 40 parishes of the UOC has already received in the hands of the newly formed structure.
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