JUST
OVER a year has passed since the Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow, the
Russian spiritual leader and ally of President Vladimir Putin, went to
Istanbul to make one final attempt to dissuade another Orthodox prelate,
the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, from recognising an independent
church in Ukraine.
On October 11th last year the Ecumenical Patriarchate
overturned its decision to temporarily transfer to Moscow the right to
ordain the popularly elected metropolitan of Kyiv on the basis of the
unfulfilled conditions on the part of ROC, as well as due to the change
in the global socio-political situation. Thus, the Ecumenical
Patriarchate brought back under its omophorion the Metropolis of Kyiv.































