60,000 Ukrainian faithful ask Patriarch Bartholomew that the question of autocephaly be examined exclusively according to the canons

A petition gathering 60,000 signatures of Ukrainian faithful was handed to Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew’s Secretary Office. They are asking that the request of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, sent to the Phanar by Ukrainian politicians, be examined exclusively within the framework of canon law. The first 10,000 signatures were collected in May, and another 50,000 during a pilgrimage to the Ukraine led by Pimen, Bishop of Duvno and