Bartholomew outplayed Poroshenko
In the case of Ukraine, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople used an unparalleled method of granting autocephaly. This opinion was expressed in a comment to Kommersant by the head of the Center for the Study of Problems of Religion and Society at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Roman Lunkin. “The local church of Ukraine, according to the tomos, is essentially not a new autocephalous church, but a metropolis of the Patriarchate of Constantinople with expanded rights of autonomy. Patriarch Bartholomew used a new...