“We have a big mission, because we live in a historical era,” Gopko quotes PolitNavigator.
According to her, “the time has come for Ukraine in this era.”
“And only then, realizing how powerful we are a nation, how much we are a nation of passionaries, will we stop whining and finally realize that God gave us this holy land, this second Jerusalem, especially after receiving the Thomos,” added Gopko.
On February 3, a ceremony of enthronement of the head of the new church of Ukraine, Epiphanius, took place in the Kiev Sophia Cathedral. On January 6, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople handed him a tomos about autocephaly.