We wholeheartedly address you from the See of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the joyous greeting “Christ is risen!” The resurrection of Christ is the center of our Orthodox faith. Without the resurrection, our faith is “in vain” (1 Cor. 15:14).

In connection with the adoption and referral to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Ukrainian Churches and government appeals, with the request of granting a Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine...