On Thursday, July 24, the delegation of the
Greek orthodox Church arrived to Ukraine,
headed by its Primate His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens
and All Greece. The delegation consists of Metropolitan Dionyssios of Hios, Psara and Oinoussai, Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis and Preveza, Archimandrite Kirillos Misiakoulis, Archimandrite
Prokopios Petridis and Archimandrite Timotheos (Anfi). At ‘Boryspil' airport the guests were met by the Primate of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine,
Metropolitan Lazar of Crimea and Simferopol, Bishop of Boryspil Anthony and
Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, official of the Department for
External Church Relations of the UOC priest Mykolai Danylevych and representatives of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Archbishop Hieronymos
greeted His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr and said it was very nice to meet
in the Ukrainian land.
The delegation of the Greek Church will stay in Ukraine till July 29 and will take part in all the events planned
together with His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine,
including the festivities of July 26 in the Sophia square, the divine service on July, 27 at Volodymyrska Gorka and the divine service on
July, 28 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
Archbishop Hieronymos
and the Greek Church delegation members stayed at the hotel "National" in the
Kyiv region of Lypky.
It is known that the Primate of the Church
of Greece honours the Holy Hierarch
Luke (Voino-Yasenetskyi) of the Crimea. Before
his election to the see of Athens His Beatitude Hieronymos headed the
Metropolis of Thebes and Levadeia, where the orthodox youth camps are located,
receiving thousands of children from the Crimea each year.
Maxim Sydorenko,
for ORTHODOX.ORH.UA
photos by Maxim
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