UOC hierarch and Prague Archbishop discuss situation in the Orthodox World
Meeting of representatives of the UOC and the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia. Photo: DECR UOC
In Prague, the ruling hierarch of the Western European Vicariate of the UOC, Bishop Veniamin of Boyarka, met with Archbishop Michael of Prague and the Czech Lands, according to the DECR UOC webiste.
The meeting took place on May 17 with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
"During the meeting, the hierarchs exchanged Easter greetings and discussed the current situation in the Orthodox world," the UOC reports.
It is reported that the meeting was also attended by the secretary of the Prague Diocese of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, Archpriest Nikolai Onchulenko, and the rector of the UOC parish in Dresden, Germany, Archpriest Serhiy Yarema.
As the UOJ reported, representatives of the Bulgarian Church concelebrated with "hierarchs" of the OCU in Istanbul.
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