Apostolic Nuncio on return visit to occupied Donetsk

On Saturday, February 16, 2019, the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, visited the occupied city of Donetsk.

This was reported by the KMC with reference to the site “Churches and Chapels of Ukraine”.

In the parish church of St. Joseph the Craftsman, he led a mass. Concelebrating with the archbishop was assistant bishop of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Diocese Jan Sobilo, who accompanied him on this trip, local rector Father Mykola Piletsky and other priests.

Previous visits of the Apostolic Nuncio to Donetsk were made on March 30, 2018, on December 16 and July 11, 2017, as well as on December 17 and March 25, 2016.