Constanstinople hierarch: Question of Ukrainian Tomos postponed
The Ecumenical Patriarchate will make a decision on granting the Tomos on autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church when “the right time comes”.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate will make a decision on the Ukrainian issue at a later point, His Eminence Metropolitan Arsenios (Kardamakis) of Austria and Exarch of Hungary commented, noting that the issue has been postponed until “the right time comes,” reports Deutsche Welle.
No official statement has been made yet.
“We don’t want to create any new problems, but with God’s help we will proceed so that everything is peaceful,” the metropolitan added.
Constantinople’s exarch bishops, Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon and Bishop Ilarion of Edmonton, arrived in Constantinople yesterday after several weeks in Kiev to report on their activity there and on the process of their negotiations with Ukraine’s two schismatic bodies.
As reported on the official site of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, “The Holy Synod discussed in particular and at length the ecclesiastical matter of Ukraine, in the presence of His Excellency Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon and His Grace Bishop Hilarion of Edmonton, Patriarchal Exarchs to Ukraine, and following extensive deliberations decreed to renew the decision already made that the Ecumenical Patriarchate proceed to the granting of Autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine”.
