Filaret: Georgian Church should remember its history
Head of the UOC KP Filaret
The head of the UOC KP Filaret hopes that the Georgian Orthodox Church will support the autocephaly in Ukraine. Filaret spoke about this in an interview with Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of the Caucasus).
The head of the Kiev Patriarchate recalled that there was a time when the Russian state destroyed the autocephaly of the Georgian Church and appointed the Russian Exarch in Tbilisi.
“So, the Georgian Church should remember its history,” Ekho Kavkaza quotes the leader of the UOC KP. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is having the same story. What do we want from the Georgian Church? When the Ukrainian Church receives the Tomos on autocephaly, we want the Georgian Church to enter into prayerful unity with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.”
Filaret counts on this because the Georgian people support the Ukrainian people just as the Ukrainian people support the Georgian people.
“On this basis, we hope that the Georgian Church will support the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” concluded the leader of the Kiev Patriarchate.
Earlier, the Georgian Church officially denied the words of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Andrei Parubiy, that the Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia hopes for a positive decision of the Constantinople Patriarchate on granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church.
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