Ecumenical Patriarchate says what name new unified local church in Ukraine should have

Archbishop Job of Telmessos, Doctor of Theology and representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the World Council of Churches, who has been long and deeply involved in Ukrainian matters, told in a BBC interview that what the name of the newly created Church in Ukraine should be, and substantiated his point.

Archbishop Job thinks the new Church will be called “Orthodox Church in Ukraine.”

Not the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, because the church is the only one ... It belongs to Christ, and not to a nation or a state,” he says.

“In Greek, the names of the churches sound like: Orthodox Church in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria. The Slavic names - Bulgarian, Serbian or Russian Orthodox Church - are used incorrectly and indicate ethnophyletism, that is, religious nationalism, explains Archbishop Job.