Ukrainian News – Tomos for Ukraine: an important victory has been known

It was announced that the Cypriot church was planning to recognize the leader of Metropolitan Epiphanes of the CPSU.

This is what the PUBLIC TRUTH says by referring to the Greek edition of "The light of the phanar." , – said the Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostom

The head of the Cypriot Church said he heard the statement of Metropolitan Epiphanius on the desire to establish communion and responded that it was the only way to do so. was natural. He also noticed that Epiphanius was already in Cyprus, knew the local situation well and spoke Greek

Archbishop Chrysostom gave this answer to the Metropolitan of Elpidophor of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, visiting the Orthodox Church of Cyprus. Elpidophor presented to Chrysostom his recently published book on the visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Ukraine in 2008.

Let us pay attention to the Russian media's comments on this information. RosMMI writes that the head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostom II, does not support the granting of autocephaly to Ukraine.

"The head of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, on the proposal to accept the head of the new church of Ukraine, metropolitan Epiphanes, refused. Chrysostom also added that he had not mentioned Epiphanius in the divine liturgy and that he would never remember it ", – wrote the Russian edition

Remember that Patriarch Filaret had asked not to be called the church is the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. According to him, an error occurred during the translation: "The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is now spreading under a false name.The Orthodox Church of Ukraine is correct

The deputy of the UOC, Vasyl Gumarov, explained why Tomos Ukraine.