Moscow engages all allies to put pressure on the Ecumenical Patriarch, the head of Ukraine’s parliament said. By UNIAN Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, Andriy Parubiy has invited Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to deliver a speech...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to reaffirm that a tomos of autocephaly (independence) of the newly founded Orthodox Church of Ukraine will be granted on January 6, 2019, Poroshenko said....
By European Interest Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the leading authority in Orthodox Christianity, has welcomed the creation of an Orthodox church in Ukraine independent of Moscow. Bartholomew expressed “great joy and satisfaction” in a statement...
By Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church welcomed the election of a leader for the country’s new independent Orthodox church. In Kiev Dec. 15, 192 bishops from Ukraine’s three previously divided Orthodox...
By The Siver Post From the election of the Metropolitan of Pereiaslav and Belotserkovsky Epiphanius by the Primate of the local Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UPPC) won the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Ukrainian Patriarch Filaret. This is stated in the...
The leading authority in Orthodox Christianity invited new church’s leader to Istanbul for confirmation By The National The Orthodox Patriarch has welcomed the creation of an Orthodox church in Ukraine independent of Moscow and invited its leader to Istanbul to...