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 Russian Orthodox Church broke off Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The decision was made at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place on October 15 in Minsk. The reason given is “the anti-canonical actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which entered into communion with schismatics in Ukraine and encroached on the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church,” writes Meduza. The Patriarchate of Constantinople is "the first in honor" ...