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The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has adopted the corresponding decision.  The Ecumenical Patriarchate is launching procedures required for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, according to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
"The relevant decision has been taken by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate following its receipt for consideration of a president's appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the provision of a tomos on autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, a Verkhovna Rada Decree in its support, as well as relevant appeals of hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches," the president wrote on Facebook.


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