Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) says the case against Ukraine’s former (fifth) president Petro Poroshenko related to providing the Tomos of autocephaly (independence) to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was opened in 2019 after Honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Filaret, who headed one of the OCU predecessor, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), had filed a respective claim.
UNIAN: SBI explains Tomos case against Poroshenko
Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv's Patriarchy speaks during press conference in Kyiv on Dec. 1, 2017.
