According to Epifaniy, several more parishes are expected to join the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2020.
Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the
Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Epifaniy (Epiphanius) has said Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew I will visit Ukraine soon.
Epifaniy announced the visit during a divine liturgy in
Kyiv’s St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, on the occasion of the first
anniversary of the creation of a single local Ukrainian Orthodox church,
Ukrainian TV Channel 5 reported on Sunday, December 15.
According to Epifaniy, several more parishes are expected to
join the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2020.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the Unification Council of
members of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches in Kyiv on December 15, 2018,
elected Metropolitan of Pereyaslavsky and Bila Tserkva from the then Ukrainian
Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate Epifaniy (also known as Epiphanius I)
as head of the new local Orthodox church in Ukraine.
On January 6, Epifaniy, as Primate of the Orthodox Church of
Ukraine and Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, received from Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul the tomos of autocephaly (independence) of the
Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epifaniy was inaugurated as
Primate of the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine at Kyiv’s Saint
Sophia Cathedral on February 3.