A historic council of Orthodox bishops in Kyiv has created a new Ukrainian church independent from Russia, President Petro Poroshenko announced yesterday.The announcement came after Ukrainian priests held a historic synod in Kyiv’s 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral to work towards establishing an Orthodox church independent from Moscow.“It happened,” Poroshenko told a crowd awaiting the council’s decision in central Kyiv.He also announced the council had chosen the head of the new church: 39-year-old Metropolitan Yepifaniy, whose secular name is Sergiy Dumenko.“This day will go down in history as the sacred day of the creation of the autocephalous local Orthodox Church of …read more
Source: Gulf times
