Ukranian priests pray at the front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Domes of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral are covered with snow in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Believers gather in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Believers gather in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Ukranian flags wave in front of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Believers, followers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, gather to pray in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko greets believers in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko greets believers in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Believers gather in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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A dome of Saint Sophia's Cathedral is covered with snow, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Believers gather in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Ukranian priests gather in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Ukranian priests gather in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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Ukrainian priests gather in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

15.12.2018#5733114

Believers, followers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, gather to pray in front of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral, in Kiev, Ukraine. On Saturday Ukraine hosts the unification council aimed to elect the leader of the new independent Orthodox church although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine, has already refused to take part in the unification council. The Ukrainian authorities and the newly created church want to get a tomos from the Constantinople patriarch on autocephaly from the Constantinople Orthodox Church.

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