Hieromonk Luke of Xenophontos Monastery, Mount Athos

Tomos for Orthodox Church of Ukraine Prepared on Parchment by Athonite Iconographer

The Tomos of Autocephaly for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has been prepared on parchment [a scroll] and delivered to the residence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople (Istanbul).  

This was reported [on January 4] by the press service of the Bigorski Monastery in Macedonia.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received at his residence the iconographer and calligrapher, Hieromonk Luke of Xenophontos Monastery on Mount Athos, who brought the document which he had prepared. Read More

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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.