Source: The Tablet According to the transcript Patriarch Bartholomew defended his plan to grant autocephaly to a new Ukrainian Orthodox church A Greek Orthodox news agency has published the transcript of a three-hour summit between the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, and Patriarch Kirill of Russia over the future of Orthodoxy in Ukraine, showing that the Russian delegation angrily rejected Ukrainian self-rule and insisted the country’s current government was illegitimate. According to the transcript, published on 1 October by Orthodosia, Patriarch Bartholomew defended his plan to grant autocephaly, or independence, to a new Ukrainian Orthodox church during the 31 August…
MOSCOW, RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 21, 2018: Patriarch Kirill (front) of Moscow and all Russia welcomes relics of Saint Spyridon of Trimythous from Corfu, Greece, at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS