On the website of the Serbian Orthodox Church, dated November 5, 2018, Bishop Irinej of Bačka (Serbian Orthodox Church) made the following comments about the Cooperation Agreement between Patriarch Bartholomew and President Poroshenko: « On November 3, His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a cooperation agreement between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and Ukraine as a State, primarily for the creation of an independent (!) Orthodox