Communiqué on the Completion of the Unifying Council in Kyiv, 15 December 2018
Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate15 December 2018
The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s announcement that a council held in Kyiv that day had founded the new autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine and elected Metropolitan Epiphanius of Pereyaslav and Bila Tserkva as its primate.
The communiqué has three short paragraphs. It announces the completion of what it calls the Unifying Council, founding the new church, and the election of Epiphanius of Kyiv; reports that he telephoned the Ecumenical Patriarch; and says that Bartholomew I invited him to concelebrate at the Phanar on the feast of Theophany and to receive the tomos. It does not say who took part in the council. See Constantinople Grants Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
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