OCU delegation visits Phanar and meets with Patriarch Bartholomew
Ivan Zoria at a meeting with the Phanar head. Photo: OCU Facebook page
On the occasion of the enthronement of Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, the official delegation of the OCU visited Constantinople, where members of the OCU met with the Phanar head, Patriarch Bartholomew, reports the OCU press service.
The meeting with the head of the Phanar was attended by the spokesperson for the OCU Ivan (Eustratiy) Zoria and the "priest" Mikhail Omelyan.
The OCU press service reports that Patriarch Bartholomew "warmly and kindly received the Ukrainian delegation". Zoria conveyed warm congratulations and handed gifts to Patriarch Bartholomew, in particular, a commemorative edition of the episcopal ministry with a dedicatory inscription from Sergei Dumenko.
After the meeting, Zoria and Omelyan took part in a joint evening service with the Phanar head in the St. George Cathedral.
As previously reported, the President of Lithuania met with Dumenko and visited the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
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