Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States supported the request for autocephalous Kiev Patriarchate

Permanent conference of the bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States supported the petition of Ukraine to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on granting Tomos about autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP).

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This is stated in the message on UOC USA website.

“The Permanent Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops outside Ukraine wrote a corresponding letter of support for the actions taken by His All Holiness and the Holy Synod of Constantinople on the possible granting of the Tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” the statement said.

UOC USA was founded in 1919 by a group of Ukrainian immigrants in the USA. In 1995, most of the parishes of this church fell under the jurisdiction of the Constantinople Patriarchate, but in 1998, four parishes passed to the UOC-KP.

Recall, April 22 Holy and Sacred The Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate accepted an appeal from the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and primates of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches to grant autocephaly, in connection with which they were “appropriate decisions” have been made.

19 April, Supreme Rada of Ukraine approved the appeal to patriarch bartholomew on the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

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