The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided to dissolve the ROC Archbishopric in Western Europe, abolishing Patriarchal Tomos of 1999.

It is reported by the UE with reference to the Orthodoxie.

"From informed sources, we learned that the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate gathered today at the Phanar. They have just decided to dissolve the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Churches in Western Europe, abolishing Patriarchal Tomos of 1999. Official statement with details coming soon! ", - said the message.

Earlier, Archbishop John of Hariopol, Exarch of the Orthodox Russian Churches in Western Europe (Patriarchate of Constantinople), called on the Russian Orthodox Church to lift the ban on laymen to take communion in the churches of the Patriarchate of Constantinople..

The Archbishop noted that for the Archdiocese of the Orthodox Russian churches, which is under the jurisdiction of Constantinople, the decision of the Moscow Patriarchate to break off communication with Constantinople is “great suffering”.

As it was reported, the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate began on November 27 in Istanbul, where the date for the unification council in Ukraine and the discussion of the text of the Tomos Council are expected to be determined.

The Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided to provide a tomos on the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine on October 11 of this year..

Now, a Council should be convened in Kiev with the participation of the bishops of the UOC-KP, the UAOC, as well as the UOC-MP, who addressed the Ecumenical Patriarch with a request for Tomos.

The cathedral will formalize the church association, forming a single local UOC, and select its head.. After this, the primate will receive a unified local autocephalous UOC Tomos as a document.