Press secretary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Archbishop Yevstratiy (Zorya) says Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will hand a tomos of autocephaly over to the head of a new local Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 6, 2019.
UNIAN: Tomos to be handed over to new Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s head on Jan. 6
Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate speaks during a mass prayer to express gratitude to the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate for granting approval to establish Ukraine's independent, or "autocephalous," church on Oct. 14, 2018 in Kyiv.
