The harsh even hysterical reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to the decision of the Greek Orthodox Church to recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reflects the fact that the Greek move may be a bigger defeat for the Russian church than even the original grant by the Universal Patriarch.
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Paul Goble: Greek acceptance of Ukrainian autocephaly is defeat for Moscow
Newly elected Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Yepifaniy Sergiy Dumenko conducts the first liturgy since the creation of a new Ukrainian church independent from Russia in the Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv on Dec. 16, 2018.
