In the Cathedral of St. George in Istanbul, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presented the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Metropolitan Epiphanius, with a tomos of autocephaly (letter of independence), thereby formally completing the process of creating a new church - the fifteenth in the family of recognized local Orthodox churches in...

The Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate approved the text of the tomos on autocephaly of the future united Ukrainian church, as well as the draft of its charter, but did not name the date of the unification council at which this church should be established. Many observers who followed with interest the progress of the synod as in ...

The US State Department announced the official position of Washington on granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church. The department's website published a statement by the department spokesman Heather Neuert, which says that the United States respects the right of Orthodox religious leaders and believers in Ukraine to follow the path of autocephaly in accordance with their ...

The Permanent Conference of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States supported Ukraine’s petition to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to grant the Tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP). This is stated in a message on the website of the UOC of the United States. “The Permanent Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops outside...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the appeal of President Petro Poroshenko to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, writes Ukrayinska Pravda. Poroshenko noted that his Easter meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew turned out to be encouraging, although the dialogue between Ukraine and the ecumenical throne about...