FIRST
CONCELEBRATION
OF A BISHOP OF GREEK ARCHDIOCESE WITH BISHOP OF P.Ts.U. OCCURS
IN GREECE
Metropolitan
of Tallinn
and all-Estonia Stefan, of the patriarchate of Constantinople,
on 20 October
led a liturgy in the St. Nicholas cathedral church in Volos in
Greece; bishops
of the Greek archdiocese and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
(PTsU)—Metropolitan
of Demetrias Ignatios and Bishop of Olvia Epifany—concelebrated
with him, a
correspondent for Credo.Press reports.
As the
Orthodox
Times notes, this liturgy was the first precedent of
concelebration of
hierarchs of the Greek archdiocese and the PTsU, after the
recognition of the
autocephaly [of the Ukrainian church—tr.] by the last Bishops'
Council in
Athens on 12 October.
The
concelebration occurred
on the day after Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in a joint
liturgy with
Archbishop of Athens and all-Greece Ieronymos, solemnly
commemorated
Metropolitan Epifany as the primate of the autocephalous Church
of Ukraine.
Before
his transfer
into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Bishop of Olvia Epifany was
a cleric of
the Demetrias diocese of the Greek archdiocese, where he
received canonical
leave for episcopal consecration in the PTsU. He is a vicar
bishop of the
primate of the PTsU, responsible for the care of the Greek
community who are
members of that church (primarily in the east of Ukraine). (tr.
by PDS, posted
22 October 2019)
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