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The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople will hand over a Tomos — a decree granting independence, or autocephaly — to the future head of the local Orthodox Church in Ukraine on January 6, Archbishop Yevstratiy, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate said on December 13.

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