Top figures in Ukraine’s new Orthodox Church are meeting in a synod amid an apparent power struggle between Patriarch Filaret, an early vocal supporter of the independent Ukrainian church, and the new church’s elected head, Metropolitan Epiphanius.
RFE/RL: Ukrainian church leaders meet amid power struggle
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on Jan. 6, 2019, shows Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (L) and Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church (R), during the official ceremony of "Tomos" decree of autocephaly handing at the Patriarchal Church of St George in Istanbul.
