Patriarch Filaret on Pastoral Visit to USA

30.10.2012, 08:55
Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate accompanied by the Church’s Administrator, Bishop Ahapit of Vyshhorod and Dr. of Theology, Professor Dmytro Stepovyk on 26 October departed from Kyiv for USA.

Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate accompanied by the Church’s Administrator Bishop Ahapit of Vyshhorod and Dr. of Theology Professor Dmytro Stepovyk on October 26 departed from Kyiv for the United States.

Due to bad weather conditions, the delegation had to land in London and arrived in Chicago only in the evening of October 27.

On October 28, Patriarch Filaret and Bishop Ahapit led a liturgy in the Church of the Holy Sophia in Chicago, the press service of the UOC-KP reported.