Photo: Telegram / Denis Shmigal
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (middle)
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The delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate will take part in the celebrations on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived in Ukraine. He was met by Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal and the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius. About it reported head of the government.
“I personally congratulated Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Ukraine. A symbolic and important visit for our state,” Shmigal wrote in his Telegram channel.
He added that the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate will take part in the celebrations on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence.
“I thanked for the support provided to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people by His Holiness,” said Shmygal.
Note that this is the first visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch in 13 years.
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Meeting of the Patriarch. Telegram / Denis Shmigal
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Earlier it was reported that Patriarch Bartholomew will hold a liturgy in Kiev in St. Sophia, together with Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kiev and All Ukraine.
On the eve of the arrival of Patriarch Bartholomew, believers of the UOC picketed the track… The protesters were holding in their hands the same type of posters with a portrait of the Patriarch of the UOC-MP Onufriy, on which it was announced that he was their primate.
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