ROC Representative: Patriarch Kirill to pay a pastoral visit to Ukraine

Chairman of the Synod’s Department for the Relations of the Church with Society and Mass Media of the Moscow Patriarchate Vladimir Legoyda announced that Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus Kirill will pay a pastoral visit to Ukraine by all means, as reported by RIA News Ukraine.

“I have no doubts the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church will be able to visit Kiev, I believe it and I am looking forward to that,” said Legoyda in a live program “Press-conference” on “Russia 24” TV channel.

The Chairman of the Synod’s Department also reminded the Patriarch had repeatedly visited Ukraine before.

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