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The Main Secretariat of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa
distributed an official announcement on the recognition of the
Patriarchal and Synodal Tomos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on
autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church and the inclusion of the name of the
Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine His Beatitude Metropolitan of
Kiev and All Ukraine Epiphanius in Diptych for remembrance.
Today, November 8, Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa Theodore II
mentioned the name of Metropolitan Epiphany of Kyiv and all Ukraine and
called him the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. It occurred
during the Divine Liturgy on the day of the Archangel Michael (according
to the New Style) in the Archangel Michael Cathedral in the capital of
Egypt.
Two sources have confirmed the
reliability of the aforementioned. An official announcement is expected
later. This was informed via Facebook by Archbishop Evstratiy (Zoria), a spokesman of the OCU.
Thus, the Patriarchate of Alexandria has
joined the Churches recognizing the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church
of Ukraine. The Church of Alexandria holds second place after the
Ecumenical Patriarchate in diptychs.
