President of Ukrainian World Congress requests Patriarch Bartholomew to grant autocephaly to UOC-KP

Source: Religious Information Service of Ukraine

February 6, 2018

    

On January 30, 2018, at the premises of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey, the President of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) Eugene Czolij met with Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople - New Rome, the UWC reported.

The UWC President has presented and submitted the Resolution of the Annual General Meeting of the UWC in 2017, which continues to urge the Ecumenical Patriarch to issue Tomos about the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate. Eugene Czolij also acquainted the Ecumenical Patriarch with the current European integration processes in Ukraine and emphasized the danger of the hybrid war of the Russian Federation both for Ukraine and for peace and stability in the world.

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2/9/2018

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