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Ukrainian president visits Ecumenical Patriarchate (upd)

Oct 16, 2020 | 16:41
in FrontPage, Politics
Ukrainian president visits Ecumenical Patriarchate (upd)

© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate

LAST UPDATE: 19:22

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, paid a formal visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Ecumenical Patriarch welcomed the delegation accompanying the president of Ukraine in the Audience Hall of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew held a private meeting with the president of Ukraine in the Patriarchal Office.

“We feel that you bring us feelings of love, respect and devotion of the entire Ukrainian people to the Mother Church of Constantinople from which you received the lights of Christianity and which will be always by your side with motherly affection and constant prayer,” said the Ecumenical Patriarch. “The Mother Church demonstrated its feelings by granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which is progressing and flourishing. We are, therefore, very proud. We follow the same path and we continue the works of our brother, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv. We thank God because he is worthy of being elected to the leadership of your Church,” said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

The Ecumenical Patriarch expressed his joy for the continuous progress, stability, peace and prosperity that exists in Ukraine and referred to the thirtieth anniversary of the country’s independence in 2021. He added that Ukraine went through many difficulties over the last thirty years and that it was the consequence of the previous regime. “I hope that the entire Ukrainian nation will be able to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Ukraine’s independence in 2021 with enthusiasm, joy, and great happiness,” he added.

Moreover, President Zelenskyy invited the Ecumenical Patriarch to pay an official visit to Ukraine which he deemed as a particularly honorable invitation. The Ukrainian president invited the Ecumenical Patriarch to visit Ukraine in 2021 on the 30th anniversary since the establishment of the independent Ukrainian State on August 24. The Ecumenical Patriarch expressed his hope that an official visit would soon take place, God willing, when the pandemic would be over. He also recalled with great emotion his previous visit to Ukraine in 2008, during which he was warmly welcomed by the Ukrainian people and was blessed to be able to officiate at the historic Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. In addition, he was able to officiate on the St. Vladimir Hill along with Patriarch Alexios II οf Moscow and All Russia and with the Archbishops of Athens and all Greece and Tirana and all Albania. The Ecumenical Patriarch asked God to bless him in order to hold such meetings in the future at the Phanar and in Ukraine. President Zelensky agreed with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and said that his visit would be a particularly important moment for Ukraine.

© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate

Earlier, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France officiated a prayer service on the occasion of the official visit of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the Patriarchal Church of St George at the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate
© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate
© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate
© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate
© Nikos Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate

Υποδοχή Προέδρου της Ουκρανίας Εξοχ. κ. Volodymyr Zelensky στο Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο

Gepostet von Ecumenical Patriarchate am Freitag, 16. Oktober 2020

 

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