Honorary Patriarch of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Filaret believes that the Ukrainian Church will eventually be recognized as a patriarchate and there will be no split in the world Orthodoxy, reports Ukrinform.
“For the time being, we have been recognized as a metropolis, and we agree with it. Although we have been patriarchate for 25 years, we have now agreed that we are a metropolis, but a metropolis for all Orthodoxy. We have a claim to the patriarchy because we. We have the hope that the Ukrainian Church will eventually be recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as a patriarchate. This is a future, but it will come,” said Filaret. According to him, with the receipt of Tomos on the autocephaly of the Ukrainian church, most of the Orthodox churches will start communication with it.
