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Ukrainian Church Keeps Direct Contact With Constantinople Patriarchate

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KIEV (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) maintains direct contact with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, deputy head of the UOC Department for External Church Relations said on Friday.

"The Patriarchate of Constantinople communicates directly with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Proof of that are multiple letters from Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry [of Kiev and All Ukraine] and vice versa," deputy head of the UOC Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Nikolay Danilevich told Sputnik.

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