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Heads of UOC-MP and UOC-KP Met With New Ambassador of Austria in Ukraine

05.10.2010, 12:25
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On October 4, the heads of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate and Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate held meetings with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria in Ukraine, Wolf Dietrich Heim.

Зустріч-з-послом_1.jpgOn October 4, the heads of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) held meetings with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria in Ukraine, Wolf Dietrich Heim. During the meetings, the Austrian diplomat inquired about the prospects of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue and got acquainted with the interdenominational situation in Ukraine.

According to the press service of the UOC-MP, the ambassador discussed with its head, Metropolitan Volodymyr, a number of questions regarding the status and prospects of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue, the relations between the Orthodox and Greek Catholics, and the place and role of Ukraine and Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the European social and religious processes.

According to the press service of the UOC-KP, during the meeting with Patriarch Filaret, the guests learned about the state of church affairs in Ukraine. "During the conversation,  questions of the existing world's problems such as the lack of spirituality and decline of the moral and ethical values in the society, secularism, same-sex marriages, Christian education of youth, and the Islamization of the European society were also raised," reads the report.