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Thursday, April 19, 2018
Ukraine's parliament backs appeal to Bartholomew to create independent UOC
Poroshenko asks Patriarch Bartholomew to provide Ukrainian Orthodox Church with a tomos for autocephaly.
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has adopted a resolution in support of the appeal by President Petro Poroshenko to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to recognize the independence of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). A total of 268 MPs of 334 registered in the session hall voted for draft resolution No. 8284, an UNIAN correspondent reports. In the appeal, Poroshenko asks Patriarch Bartholomew to provide Ukrainian Orthodox Church with a tomos for autocephaly.
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