Polish President Andrzej Duda has officially invited Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to visit his country to bless, comfort and strengthen the countless refugees who found themselves in the country after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
This was reported by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, according to the OCU spokesman Yevstratiy Zorya, who wrote about it on Facebook.
"His All-Holiness, having also received a similar invitation from the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Poland, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw, intends to accept and visit the temporary refugee shelters there, accompanied by His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon and the V. Rev. Grand Syncellus Iakovos Krochak," the Ecumenical Patriarchate notes.