Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) told the Italian published edition Il Regno that he is open to dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church.
In answer to the journalist’s question if any steps towards dialogue were made after the letter from the Head of the External Church Relations of ROC, Ilarion Alfeev with a proposal of closer cooperation, the patriarch said that there was correspondence but there was no meeting yet: “We have not started a serious dialogue about the existing problems.”
In the hierarch’s opinion, the dialogue is to take place primarily in Ukraine. “It would be natural for Blessed Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) of UOC-MP to be my interlocutor,” noted the patriarch.