Ukrainian Orthodox Church leaders today (December 15, 2018) approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head the new church, according to the Newsmax website.
The vote -- held in a closed-door synod in Kiev's St. Sophia Cathedral -- is the latest in a series of confrontations between Ukraine and authorities in Russia.
The leader of the new autocephalous (self-governing) Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be Metropolitan Epiphanius, a 39-year-old bishop from the Kiev Patriarchate.
"God heard our appeals and gave us this anticipated unity," Epiphanius told a crowd of thousands who had gathered outside the cathedral today to hear the good news.
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