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SPEAKING of priests, three bishops (Kykkos, Limassol, Tamasos) issued a joint declaration telling off hacks and threatening them with legal action, because they had been critical of the bishops' opposition to the granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox church.

The Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

The Serb Orthodox Church clearly took Russia's side in its dispute with the Ecumenical Patriarch about the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church.

Since then, the struggle for autocephaly has begun to be seen not only as a church issue but also a matter of national security.

In the year 2019, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates the great jubilee of the Church - eight hundred years after obtaining autocephaly. The consecration of St.

At a ceremony in Istanbul, the spiritual leader of the Orthodox world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, signed a decree on ecclesiastical independence, or autocephaly. The decree formalizes the creation of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, established last month by two of the country's largest churches.

The decree, granting "autocephaly", was signed by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at a service with the head of the Ukrainian church Metropolitan Epifaniy and President Petro Poroshenko in St George's Cathedral in Istanbul.

15, the Russian church cut ties with the Fener Greek Patriarchate, and described the Patriarchateas decision on Ukrainian autocephaly as adissent.a

"He is imposing an autocephaly, which is alien to millions of believers, encouraging Poroshenko's and the Patriarchate of Constantinople's schismatic steps," she added.