On November 3, 2018, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko was warmly welcomed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Phanar. On this occasion, the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Ukrainian president signed a Coordination and Cooperation bilateral agreement between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine. This agreement would speed up the process of granting the tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The President of Ukraine addressed the hierarchs and