FATE OF WORLD ORTHODOXY BEING DECIDED IN UKRAINE—POROSHENKO
The Bishops' Council of the ecumenical patriarchate dispelled Moscow's illusion that Ukraine is the canonical territory of the Moscow patriarchate, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared. This is reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
"A united local Orthodox conciliar church is a guarantee of public harmony and the unity of our state. It is the guarantee of our spiritual independence from Moscow, which, unfortunately, hitherto has been in captivity to the mistaken notion that supposedly our land is its canonical territory," he said on Friday in Kiev at the 15th annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES), organized by the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation.
"And the September synaxis, the meeting of the bishops of the ecumenical patriarchate, completely destroyed these mistaken illusions of Moscow," P. Poroshenko added.
He said the question of granting a tomos to the UPTs is also important beyond the borders of the country. "Ukrainians throughout the world will receive their own church. And here is yet another important feature—the concept of the 'Third Rome,' the oldest claim of Moscow to world hegemony, is falling like a house of cards," the head of state said.
"Here in our land the future of world Orthodoxy is being decided; we also understand this differently than the Russians," P. Poroshenko emphasized. (tr. by PDS, posted 17 September 2018)
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