Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that the tomos, a decree of autocephaly (independence), which has been granted to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, is as important as the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
UNIAN: Poroshenko – Tomos for Ukraine is another act of declaring independence
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (left) and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul on Jan. 5, 2019. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has signed a decree granting autocephaly, or independence, to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The creation of an Orthodox church in Ukraine independent of Moscow ends more than 300 years of Moscow domination.
