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Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epifaniy thanked Patriarch
Bartholomew for signing the Tomos, noting that the Orthodox Church of
Ukraine was waiting for its granting with impatience and excitement.
"I would also like to express our gratitude to the President of
Ukraine and all those who worked with him and under his leadership to
help us accomplish the dream of generations of Ukrainian Orthodox
hierarchs and believers to have an Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Your
name, Mr. President, will remain forMetropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epifaniy thanked Patriarch
Bartholomew for signing the Tomos, noMetropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epifaniy thanked Patriarch
Bartholomew for signing the Tomos, noting that the Orthodox Church of
Ukraine was waiting for its granting with impatience and excitementing that the Orthodox Church of
Ukraine was waiting for its granting with impatience and excitemenever in the history of the Ukrainian
people and the church next to the names of our princes Volodymyr the
Great, Yaroslav the Wise, Kostiantyn Ostrozky and Hetman Ivan Mazepa,"
he said in the ceremony of signing the Tomos of Autocephaly of the
Orthodox Church of Ukrainel. The solemn ceremony took place today in the
Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul.
