Patriarch Filaret To Visit Lviv Eparchy

On 2-14 September, the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret is to visit the Lviv Eparchy. So reported the press-service of the Lviv-Sokal Eparchy of UOC-KP.

The visit is timed to a feast celebrated at a wonder-working well of Urozhyshche Zaglyna in the village of Monastyrka of Zhovkva District where the Holy Virgin appeared.

The visit program:

September 12, at 5 pm: meeting Patriarch Filaret at the edge o f the Brody District, the border  line between the Rivne and Lviv regions.

September 13, at 11 am:  a celebratory patriarchal liturgy in the Chapel of the Theotokos of the Holy Virgin at the well of Urochyshche Zaglyna in the village of Monastyrka of Zhovkva District. The liturgy will be celebrated by the Primate in concelebration with the bishops and clergy of the Lviv Eparchy

14 September, at 10:15 am : a meeting of the patriarch with teachers and students of the  National University “Lviv Polytechnics”

14 September, at 3 pm: the patriarch’s departure for Chernivtsi.

The web site of the Kyivan Patriarchate also reported that on 29 August, in his residence, Patriarch Filaret received at his residence a known Canadian businessman, sponsor and public figure of the Ukrainian descent, a co-founder and director of the Initiative “Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter,” James Costiantyn Temerty.

The meeting was also attended by the Director of the Ukrainian Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Roman Savytskyi, the Secretary of the Holy Synod of UOC-KP, Archbishop Yevstratii and an interpreter Myroslava Luzina.

The participants of the meeting discussed the results of the visit of the delegation of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations to Canada and USA which was organized by Temerty last spring and noticed its importance and fruitfulness.

The participants also talked about further development of contacts between Ukrainians in the homeland and diaspora, inter-denominational and inter-Church cooperation, including the cooperation between the Orthodox and Greek Catholics. The patriarch supported Temerty’s opinion that the use of a grotesque offensive image of the “Jew” in Nativity plays is incongruous in the context of the Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue.

In the end, the participants outlined further cooperation plans and exchanged memorable gifts.