Following a historic power struggle in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the religion’s highest body has declared that Ukraine’s Orthodox churches will officially unify in December. That move will end a 359-year subordination of the Ukrainian church to the Russian church.
After the Unification Council of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine occurs next month (on a date still to be determined), the Ukrainian church will be subordinate only to central Orthodox officials in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople). A patriarch of Kiev will be named at the December council. Read More
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