Phanar Metropolitan Emmanuel meets with Dumenko in Kyiv
Metropolitan Emmanuel and Serhiy Dumenko. Photo: Romfea
Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon arrived in Kyiv at the invitation of Zelensky and met with Serhiy Dumenko, Romfea reports.
According to the resource, a telephone conversation between Patriarch Bartholomew and Dumenko was held concurrently.
The hierarch of the Phanar also visited the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, where he talked with the so-called "acting abbot of the Lavra" from the OCU Avraamy Lotysh.
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that according to Greek media reports, Zelensky would discuss the transfer of the Kyiv Lavra to the Phanar with Bartholomew.
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