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Ukraine creates new Orthodox church independent from Russia
Metropolitan Epifaniy, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
This is huge news for Ukraine. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church will no longer be subservient to the Russian Orthodox Church as it has been for hundreds of years. The Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch in Constantinople granted independence earlier this year and it will become official after the New Year. Rather than graciously accept the Patriarch's decision, the Russian Orthodox Church has split from Constantinople.
This is also a national security victory for Ukraine. Russian Orthodox clerics in Ukraine were repeating Kremlin propaganda in their sermons and vocally supporting the Muscovite proxies in eastern Ukraine etc.
Related: Russian Orthodox Church splits from Constantinople over Ukraine
Metropolitan Epifaniy, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
12/15/18
A council of Orthodox bishops has created a new Ukrainian church, marking an historic split from Russia which its leaders see as vital to the country's security and independence. The announcement on Saturday came after Ukrainian priests held a synod in capital Kiev's 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral to establish an Orthodox church independent from Moscow. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that 39-year-old Metropolitan Epifaniy of the Kiev Patriarchate church is the head of the new church. His secular name is Sergiy Dumenko. "This day will go down in history as a sacred day ... the day of the final independence from Russia," Poroshenko told thousands of supporters, who shouted "Glory! Glory! Glory!" "I would like to call on all our brothers, bishops and all believers to the newly created united Ukrainian Orthodox Church," Yepifaniy told the crowd outside the cathedral. "The doors of our church are open to all."
The newly formed community is now expected to receive independence from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Istanbul-based institution considered the so-called "first among equals" of leaders of the world's Orthodox Churches. Poroshenko said he would travel with Epifaniy to Istanbul in January to receive an official Tomos from the head of global Orthodoxy granting the new church independence.
This is huge news for Ukraine. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church will no longer be subservient to the Russian Orthodox Church as it has been for hundreds of years. The Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch in Constantinople granted independence earlier this year and it will become official after the New Year. Rather than graciously accept the Patriarch's decision, the Russian Orthodox Church has split from Constantinople.
This is also a national security victory for Ukraine. Russian Orthodox clerics in Ukraine were repeating Kremlin propaganda in their sermons and vocally supporting the Muscovite proxies in eastern Ukraine etc.
Related: Russian Orthodox Church splits from Constantinople over Ukraine