The First Christmas Liturgy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

January 7, 2019, Kyiv.

A plot about the first Christmas liturgy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine after receiving the Tomos. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epiphanius conducts the liturgy, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with his family, Tomos on the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, speeches by Epiphanius and Poroshenko, Sophia Square, carol singers, a journalist's stand-up, comments from Kyiv residents.

Reference: The Tomos on the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was granted on January 6, 2019 by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The document certified the canonical independence of the OCU from the moscow Patriarchate and its recognition in world Orthodoxy. Receiving the Tomos was an important event for the establishment of Ukraine's spiritual and state independence.