UOC hierarch: I want Patriarch Bartholomew to see our cross processions
Cross procession of the UOC to the Kalynivka cross, 06/07/21. Photo: UOJ
The head of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Ukrainian authorities must see cross processions of the believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The ruling bishop of the Tulchin diocese of the UOC, Metropolitan Jonathan (Yeletskikh) of Tulchyn and Bratslav, said this in a commentary to the UOJ correspondent after the traditional prayer procession to the Kalynivka cross in the Vinnytsia diocese.
“I want Patriarch Bartholomew, who sits in Turkey and says that we are minuscule, to see our processions,” the bishop emphasized. "And I want the President and the entire Verkhovna Rada to also see it."
We will remind, earlier one of the curators of the OCU, MP from the European Solidarity Party Rostislav Pavlenko said that the Church of Constantinople saw the actions of believers of the UOC and consider them to be small.
As the UOJ reported, on July 6, 2021, in the Vinnitsa diocese of the UOC, a crowded procession took place to the miraculous cross in Kalynivka, which was prayerfully supported by the ruling bishops of the three dioceses of the UOC – Vinnytsia, Tulchyn and Mohilev-Podilsk.
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