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For the first time, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially responded to the initiative of the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, concerning the granting of autocephaly to Ukrainian schismatics. Here is a translation of the full message: “Message to the episcopate, clergy, monks, nuns and laity, on the occasion of the initiative of ‘granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine’. Your Eminences, your Excellencies, Dear fathers,

To allow a parallel ecclesial jurisdiction in the Ukraine [that is to say, the two current schismatic entities, on the assumption that the Patriarchate of Constantinople would grant autocephaly, note of the editor] would mean to abandon [the project of] a single Church in the Ukraine. This was the statement made by Metropolitan Anthony of Borispol and Brovary, chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in an interview with the Greek agency