The Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church supports the provision of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) and aims to officially obtain the status of autocephaly.
UNIAN: Belarusian church mulling to obtain autocephaly following Ukraine
People attend an Orthodox Christmas service in a church in Minsk on January 6, 2018. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7 in the Middle East, Russia and other Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 17th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics, Protestants, Greek Orthodox and commonly used in secular life around the world.
