On March 16, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, met in a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.
On March 16, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, met in a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.
According to a report of Radio Vatican, prior to the meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the pope talked with Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, and after the meeting with Patriarch Sviatoslav, he had private audiences with bishops of a group of hierarchs from USA who came to Rome on an ad Limina Apostolorum visit.