The Orthodox Church of Cyprus has expressed its approval of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine.The Holy Synod of the Cypriot Church met to discuss Ukraine on 18 February 2019.
The Church of Cyprus said it fully supports Ukraine in its desire to create a local Orthodox Church. Ukraine had every right to ask Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to grant them Autocephaly.*
The Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church had the opportunity to come to the Council and state their position openly and negotiate a dialogue, but this never happened.Therefore they did not have the right to ignore the Council and interfere in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine's affairs, and they shall not have such a right in the future.*
Even though the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was designed to solve an internal religious split, so far,many contradictions and tensions have remained, the Church of Cyprus acknowledged.*
His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of New Justiniana and All Cyprus is Primate of the autocephalous Church of Cyprus.
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