Communities of Kyivan Patriarchate and UGCC Conduct Joint Religious Procession in Ternopil Region

In the village of Lanivtsi of Ternopil Region, the communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) conducted a joint service and religious procession.

According to the press-service of the Ternopil-Zboriv Metropolitanate of UGCC, the procession was attended by representatives of the clergy, authorities and local residents.

Archbishop and Metropolitan Vasylii (Semeniuk) of Ternopil and Zboriv addressed the participants and noted that joint prayer meetings are very important steps toward Christian unity.

The joint religious procession is not the first joint gathering of communities of UOC-KP and UGCC in Ternopil Region. In the end of March, a joint service was conducted in the village of Shyly of Zbarazh District where the relics of St John the Baptist were transported to.

The Dean of Zbarazh of UGCC, Fr. Oleh Hryhorets then noted that the joint prayer at the relics of the saint  showed the aspiration to live in love and sign of brotherly unity in Christ of the communities of the two denominations who pray in the same church in turns.