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There is a need obviously for way to work out these kinds of disagreements.
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Ecumenical Patriarch hands over decree, sealing Ukraine church independence
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Your misunderstanding the situation due to the way the media has portrayed it.
That church you read about in the media that the EP supposedly gave autocephaly to is NOT the Ukranian Orthodox Church autonomous to Moscow.
That new church structure you keep reading about were a merger of two vagante sects (they have been around for decades) which the Kiev government has chosen to be the new state religion of Ukraine.
All those famous monasteries in Ukraine and the overwhelming majority of parishes and clergy in Ukraine are still under the autonomous Ukranian Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev in communion with Russia.
The new structure created by the EP is not in communion with Russia, nor the majority of the Orthodox Churches. For example the Serbian and Polish Orthodox churches have already publicly said they do not recognize this new state church as having apostolic succession. The same goes with Antioch and Alexandria etc.
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there are, it's been less than 50 years. no need to be impatient. the good news is the OCA's canonical status is recognized, so the OCA is seen as being totally Orthodox, and is fully in communion with the rest of the Church.
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