Patriarch Bartholomew: I will always stand with Ukraine’s Gagauz
Patriarch Bartholomew meeting with Gagauz representatives. Photo: Association of Gagauz Societies of Ukraine
Patriarch Bartholomew has said he will always stand with the Gagauz of Ukraine. He made the statement during a meeting with Gagauz representatives at the Phanar, participants reported in a Facebook post.
The meeting was held in the Gagauz-Turkic language. The Patriarch also said he prays every day for an end to the war in Ukraine. The meeting was organized by Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry and personally by Roman Nedilskyi, Consul General in Istanbul.
Ukraine is home to around 30,000 Gagauz, most of whom live in Odesa region near the Moldovan border. The ancestors of today’s Ukrainian Gagauz resettled in Bessarabia from the Balkans in the early 19th century.
As the UOJ reported, Patriarch Bartholomew earlier said that he had made a mistake with Ukraine but would not correct anything. The Constantinople Patriarchate remains one of the key actors in the country’s church life after granting the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) in 2019.
Read also
Head of the Lavra Reserve: Refectory Church is official Russian style
Maksym Ostapenko criticized the architecture of the Lavra's Refectory Church.
OCU reveals accidentally they serve on antimension from Patriarch Kirill
The OCU clerics of the St. Nicholas Church of Kamiana Yaruha, seized from the UOC, serve on an antimension signed by the ROC Patriarch.
Odesa Theological Seminary invites to study choral conducting
The Choral Conducting Department at the Archangel Michael Monastery has begun accepting applications for training in church singing, reading, and choir conducting.
St. Nicholas parish of UOC in Bari celebrates its patronal feast
In Italy, on the Feast of St. Nicholas, the UOC clergy from various European countries celebrated the Divine Liturgy.
His Beatitude Onuphry: Not a single iota of compromise in matters of faith
Metropolitan Onuphry called to preserve the purity of Orthodoxy and defend the true teaching of the Church.
Constantinople Patriarch holds negotiations with Anglicans in Istanbul
Representatives of the Constantinople Patriarchate and the Anglican Church discussed issues of "mutual understanding" and preparation for a new stage of dialogue.