Ecumenical Patriarch’s envoy arrives in Ukraine

That's according to the press service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which reported on the results of a meeting between the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metritan Epiphanius, and an envoy of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Metritan Emmanuel of Chalcedon at St. Michael's Gden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv.

"With the blessing of His Hiness our Patriarch Barthomew, I came to Kyiv to testify unchanging support from the Mother Church for the heroic pele of Ukraine, who are resisting the unjust and cruel Russian aggression. During the visit of His Excellency the President of Ukraine Vodymyr Zelensky to the Ecumenical Patriarchate a month ago, the implementation of the humanitarian dimension of the Peace Formula prosed by Ukraine and other humanitarian initiatives were discussed. It was agreed that we would continue working in this direction. So, at the invitation of the President of Ukraine, I also came to fulfill this important mission," Metritan Emmanuel said.

According to the report, during the meeting there was a "warm and fruitful telephone conversation" between Ecumenical Patriarch Barthomew and Metritan Epiphanius.

At the Wall of Memory near St. Michael's Gden-Domed Monastery, which is dedicated to the sdiers who died in the war with Russia, Metritan Emmanuel and the brothers of the monastery performed a religious service for the souls of the deceased defenders of Ukraine and civilians killed as a result of the war.

Epiphanius and Emmanuel also visited the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, where the local head, Archimandrite Avraam, td the guest about the Dormition Cathedral and the current state of life of the monastery, "which is gradually freeing itself from the yoke of the Russian world."