His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry meets with Czech hierarch
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine received His Eminence Archbishop Juraj of Michalovce and Košice at the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
On January 24, 2019, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine received His Eminence Archbishop Juraj of Michalovce and Košice (the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia) at his residence in the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, reports the UOC Information and Education Department.
The meeting was also attended by His Grace Bishop Viktor of Baryshevka, vicar of the Kiev Metropolis.
Archbishop Juraj passed the words of support of the Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia Archbishop of Prešov, Metropolitan Rostislav of the Czech lands and Slovakia, to His Beatitude Onufry.
His Beatitude and Archbishop Juraj of Michalovce and Košice discussed the current state of Orthodox Christianity in the modern world.
As the UOJ reported, on January 24, His Eminence Archbishop Juraj of Michalovce and Košice of Slovakia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves in the Far Caves with the Ukrainian hierarchs His Grace Bishop Viktor of Baryshevka and His Grace Bishop Dionysius of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky.
The joint Liturgy of the hierarchs of the UOC and the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia in the Lavra demonstrated the unity of the Churches, says Archbishop Juraj of Michalovce and Košice.
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