Message of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople on Ukraine

His Holiness Bartholomew, Patriarch оf Constantinople Your Holiness, It was with the feeling of great pain, astonishment and indignation that I read your letter in which you informed me of the recent actions of the Church of Constantinople: of admitting to communion the uncanonical communities in Ukraine; of “revoking” the Letter of Patriarch Dionysius IV of Constantinople which had transferred the Kievan Metropolis to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate;