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UkrInform: Ecumenical Patriarchate justifies decision to grant Ukraine autocephaly

Published Sept. 28, 2018 at 12:25 pm

Greek Orthodox Church's Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew holds a woden cross beside the Bosphorus river's Golden Horn, as part of celebrations of the Epiphany day near the Church of Fener Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, on Jan. 6, 2018.

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The Ecumenical Patriarchate has never transferred the Kyiv metropolis, on the basis of which the Ukrainian church emerged, to the canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate.

This is stated in a 29-page document, which provides data from archives, the Echo of Moscow radio station reported.