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
“The Ukrainian issue is a sensitive topic for all Orthodoxy”
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