On December 15, 2021, in the St. Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv, the hierarchs of the “Kyiv Patriarchate”, headed by “Metropolitan” Joasaph Shibaev, ordained as “bishop” the representative of the Greek Church of Old Calendarists Chrysostomos Kallis. He was accepted into the UOC-KP which was restored from the OCU.

This was reported on the UOC-KP Facebook page.

“Archimandrite” Chrysostomos Kallis received the title of “Bishop of Mariupol and Dervenochoria”.

As previously reported, he was admitted to the UOC-KP on December 13, 2021.

The day before, Luka (Bogdan) Zgoba, secretary of the vicariate of the UOC-KP in the USA and Canada, was “ordained” as “Bishop of Philadelphia”.