Ukrainian Church leaders..like Patriarch Filaret has been wanting this since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Kiev and Moscow have been in conflict for centuries before that.
This will be a blessing not only to Ukraine, but European Christianity at large. And hopefully the next roundup of Moscow patriarchate leadership will serve Jesus Christ, not the Kremlin.
Have* been wanting autocephaly I meant.
And I thought the RCC is in a bigtime mess.
“Patriarch Filaret” is no Patriarch at all, no Bishop, and no Orthodox Christian. He is an excommunicated schismatic!!!!
http://orthochristian.com/112773.html
Poroshenko is the head of an obama coup-installed government, and has no right to make Church policy anyway—as a layman!!!!
The “conflict between Ukraine and Russia for centuries” was the project of the long-vanished Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—Roman Catholic to the core!!!!
The bogus “Patriarch” and bogus “President” are going to create a lot of trouble in the Orthodox Church, that will last of a very long time. Lord have mercy!!!!