On 30 July, a delegation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate led by its Primate’s Secretary, Archbishop Oleksandr of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vyshneve, met with Patriarch Theophilus III of Jerusalem.
According to the press service of the UOC-MP, the participants of the meeting considered general questions of modern church life. Patriarch Theophilus discussed with the visitors the issue of the mutual influence of the church relations and the political situation in the world. The patriarch also inquired about the condition of Metropolitan Volodymyr and assured the archbishop of his prayers for the metropolitan. In his turn, Archbishop Oleksandr thanked the patriarch and passed him a personal gift from Metropolitan Volodymyr.