Primate of UOC venerates shrines of Holy City of Jerusalem (PHOTOS)

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine has gone on a pilgrimage visit to the Holy Land, reports the Information and Educational Department of the UOC.

Immediately after his arrival in Jerusalem, His Beatitude venerated the Life-giving Tomb of the Lord and Golgotha in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ.

The Primate of the UOC met with His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine. The hierarchs discussed the situation in world Orthodoxy and witnessed to each other brotherly love and spiritual unity.

His Beatitude visited holy places connected with the life of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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