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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said the process of granting the Tomos on autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is on the homestretch.

“The Exarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarch have informally told me that the process of granting autocephaly to Ukraine is on the homestretch. I want to separately emphasize I do not know when they may take a decision on the Tomos and when it may be brought to Kyiv. But I’m sure that we have spun the wheel of this history so that no one would definitely turn it back,” the president said.

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