This is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople's own Tomos, the formal document signed 5 January 2019 granting autocephaly, full administrative independence, to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. As the issuing body's own primary act, it is the correct source for what the document actually grants and on what stated grounds, rather than a secondhand summary of it. Its limit is that it records one side's authoritative act in a dispute that the Moscow Patriarchate has never accepted, breaking communion with Constantinople over it, so a claim about the wider canonical dispute needs a source that also represents the contested Russian Orthodox position.
Facts
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Custodian BasisAn act of the Orthodox Church own primatial see, granting autocephaly. Authoritative as the act itself; the contest over its validity is a separate, sourced question.
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople's own Tomos, its formal primary act, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record. NotesSigned 5 January 2019; the immediate occasion of the present rupture with Moscow.
Citation
AuthorEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Publication Year2019
Source Typeprimary-text
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Constantinople directly: "This is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople's own Tomos, the formal document signed 5 January 2019 granting autocephaly, full administrative independence, to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine."
Moscow, Cities This source names Moscow directly: "act in a dispute that the Moscow Patriarchate has never accepted, breaking communion with Constantinople over it, so a claim about the wider canonical dispute needs a source that also represents the..."
This source names Ukraine directly: "to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine."
Claims Backed By This Source (31 claims)
This source backs 31 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 12 claims: 9 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Denominations, 11 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 3 general references.
- Doctrines, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Religious Organization & Structure, 2 claims: 2 general references.
General References
6Religious Organization & Structure
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