Head of UOC foreign parishes meets with religious figures in Hungary
Metropolitan Lukian of Budima expressed his support for His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry and the entire UOC. Photo: DECR UOC
In Budapest, the head of the Western European Vicariate of the UOC Bishop Veniamin of Boyarka met with the ruling bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Hungary Metropolitan Lukian of Budima and with the Secretary General of the Ecumenical Council of Churches of Hungary Vilmos Fischl, reports the DECR UOC website.
The meeting with Metropolitan Lukian took place on 21 August at his residence. Before the conversation began, the bishops venerated the miracle-working Peć Icon of the Mother of God in the Assumption Cathedral. During the conversation, the bishops discussed issues of inter-Orthodox interaction.
‘Metropolitan Lukian expressed his support for His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry and the entire Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and also assured of his prayers for the long-suffering Ukrainian people and the advent of peace in Ukraine,’ the report said.
On 22 August in Budapest, Bishop Veniamin and Vilmos Fischl discussed cooperation between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Council of Churches of Hungary.
The General Secretary assured of his support for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Hungary.
The meetings were also attended by the rector of the UOC parish in Budapest, Priest Dimitry Sidorenko.
As reported by the UOJ, earlier Bishop Veniamin and the Prague Archbishop discussed the situation in the Orthodox world.
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