In a speech he delivered to a group of pilgrims from Glyfada Attica to the Phanar
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.
































