« The Ukrainian issue is a sensitive topic for all Orthodoxy »

Metropolitan Andrew of Gori and Ateni (Patriarchate of Georgia) expressed his point of view concerning the granting of autocephaly in Ukraine. Responding to a question about the recent decision to grant the Tomos of autocephaly, he stressed that « the granting of autocephaly should take place only in a canonical way ». The metropolitan also thinks that the Orthodox faithful in Ukraine have the right to ask for an autocephalous Church, but