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Metropolitan Volodymyr Meets Jerusalem Patriarch

30.09.2008, [20:06] // UOC-MP //

Jerusalem—Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and Palestine received a group of pilgrims from Ukraine led by Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kyiv on September 26. According to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church web site, the ceremony was attended by Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyshyniv and Moldova accompanied by many clergymen, hierarchs and clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and more than two hundred pilgrims from Russia, Ukraine and Moldova.

The head of UOC and the head of the Church of Moldova thanked the patriarch of Jerusalem for the reception and the opportunity to serve a liturgy at the greatest shrine of the Christian world, the Holy Sepulchre.

The head of the Ukrainian Church thanked the patriarch of Jerusalem for supporting the canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine. In his address, Metropolitan Volodymyr mentioned the close ties between the Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and specifically noticed the role of Patriarch Theophan of Jerusalem, who helped to renew the Orthodox hierarchy in Ukraine in 1620. Metropolitan Volodymyr presented a facsimile edition of “Peresopnytske Gospel,” the first known translation of the Gospel into literary Ukrainian to the patriarch of Jerusalem.

Theophilos III thanked Sabodan for the gift and stressed that the arrival of the Orthodox pilgrims from Russia, Ukraine and other countries not only is an indication of the life of the Church but also inspires the brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre to fulfill the duty of preserving the great Shrines of Orthodoxy.

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