Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, addresses the media following an extraordinary session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church over the Ukrainian Church dispute in Moscow on September 14, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV
An envoy of Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, told Ukraine’s leader Monday that his country’s church would soon be declared independent of Russia, a move set to infuriate Moscow.
Istanbul-based Bartholomew I is expected to rule in the coming months on a Ukrainian appeal to sever spiritual bonds with Moscow amid a simmering military conflict in the east of the former Soviet country.
An incensed Russian Orthodox Church last week cut ties…
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