With all due solemnity His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, signed the Tomos of Autocephaly for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine at the Phanar this morning, January 5, 2019, in the presence of the newly elected Primate, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Epiphanius (Epifaniy) of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

His All-Holiness will formally hand over the Tomos to His Beatitude at tomorrow morning’s Divine Liturgy for the Feast of Theophany.

The 2+ hour video can be viewed here:

Axios! Axios! Axios!

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