Parubiy signed the Rada resolution on the “single local church”
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy signed a resolution to appeal to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople with a request to grant the Tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian local Orthodox Church, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He stated this at an evening meeting of parliament, the Verkhovna Rada press service reports.
“I want to inform you that I signed the resolution. And it is already the current law of Ukraine. We pray to God that it will give results, and that we will wait for the long-standing dream of Ukrainians about a unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” said the head of the Verkhovna Rada.
After this, Parubiy closed the parliamentary meeting.
“At this point, colleagues, I declare the evening meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine closed. I invite you tomorrow at 10.00 to the hall to continue our work. Thank you all for the discussion and for the decisions that were made today,” the speaker said.
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