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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople

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  2018/12/06 - 11:49 • International, Ukraine

  Draft tomos gives Ukrainian Church less autonomy than it hopes to obtain

  Ukrainian media have obtained a copy of a draft tomos that the Universal Patriarchate has prepared for delivery to a meeting of Ukrainian Orthodox Church now scheduled to take place on December 15. Because it was not officially released,...

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  2018/11/14 - 16:18 • International, More

  Moscow laying groundwork for alternative patriarchate in Muslim Turkey

  The Moscow Patriarchate is taking its battle against the Universal Patriarchate over Ukrainian autocephaly to a new level: it is seeking to organize Orthodox parishes in Turkey in order to set the stage for the creation of a new...

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  2018/11/04 - 12:27 • International, More

  Constantinople: Moscow could be stripped of autocephaly, while Belarus could gain it

  If Moscow continues to interfere with the march of Ukraine’s Orthodox to autocephaly, it could lose not only its church in Ukraine – there is no Russian church there now legitimately, a representative of the Universal Patriarchate says...

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  2018/10/14 - 11:46 • International, Ukraine

  Constantinople decision on Ukrainian Church truly has global consequences

  Although the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople has not yet given the tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Bartholomew’s decision to reclaim Ukraine as dominion, thus depriving the Moscow Patriarchate of its claims...

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  2018/09/29 - 11:51 • International, More

  The next domino – Belarusian Orthodox hope for autocephaly

  Archbishop Sviatoslau Lohin, head of the émigré Belarusian Autocephalous Church, says that his denomination supports autocephaly for Ukrainian Orthodox and hopes to achieve the same recognition for itself in its homeland from the...

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  2018/09/26 - 12:45 • International, More

  Moscow having failed to block Ukrainian autocephaly now attempting to exploit it

  The Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate remain totally opposed to autocephaly for the Ukrainian church, but in recognition of near certainty that the Ecumenical Patriarch is going to extend that independent status to Kyiv, Moscow is...

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  2018/09/16 - 08:12 • International, More

  Constantinople could grant autocephaly to Belarusian Orthodox Church next, Gorbik says

  Ukrainian Archpriest Sergey Gorbik says that Constantinople could grant autocephaly to the Belarusian Orthodox Church in the near future and for the same reason it is in the process of doing so now: The Ecumenical Patriarchate of...

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  2018/09/09 - 11:10 • International, More

  Constantinople moves to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Church, outraging Moscow

  Yesterday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it has appointed as its exarchs in Kyiv an archbishop from the US and a bishop from Canada “both of whom are serving the Ukrainian Orthodox faithful in their respective countries...

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  2018/09/08 - 12:37 • International, More

  Three signs Moscow Patriarch Kirill knows he’s lost on Ukrainian autocephaly

  The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) continues to assert that it will be able to block Ukraine’s drive for autocephaly, but three developments which surfaced today suggest that Patriarch Kirill knows that he...

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  2018/09/02 - 12:59 • International, More, Ukraine

  Ecumenical Patriarch to grant Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly, Greek Church source says

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, has decided to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, according to a Greek church site, giving a major victory to Kyiv and inflicting an even...

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