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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Vespers in the Church of St. Andrew, which is the stavropegion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Kyiv.
The Vesper was attended by a few faithful but numerous hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Kyiv, Bishop Mikhail Komana, Bishop Epiphanios of Olbia, and the Metropolitans who accompany the Ecumenical Patriarch.
Also present were former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, members of the Greek community in Kyiv, and well-known businessman Pantelis Boubouras.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew earlier met Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine at the Metropolitan House in Kyiv on Saturday, August 21, after the official Doxology at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.