It's here, it's now. Ukraine has finally got its hands on the Tomos
of Autocephaly, the document granting independence to the newly-formed
and united Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
This follows months of meetings and negotiations the driving force of
which was Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, as well as hundreds of
years of the only canonical Ukrainian Orthodox church being under
Russian leadership.
The head of the newly-formed Church, Metropolitan Epiphanius I who was elected
on December 15, along with Poroshenko, received Tomos on January 6 from
the hands of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople.
The two Ukrainians are now the rightful owners of the copy, which from
January 7 onward will be stored and displayed at the St. Sophia
Cathedral in Kyiv.
To discuss these news and their impact, we will be joined by the
Loyola Marymount University Professor Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun.