Metropolitan of Kyiv to Ecumenical Patriarch: “Your care for the flock enriches it spiritually”

Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine has sent a message of congratulations to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his election and enthronement on the Ecumenical Throne.

In his message, the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine expresses his gratitude for the Ecumenical Patriarch’s many years of ministry, his contribution to the unity of Orthodoxy, and his granting of the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. He also thanks the Ecumenical Patriarch for his continued prayerful and moral support for the Ukrainian people, who continue to endure the suffering caused by the war.

Read below the message of Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine “For three and a half decades, this distinguished hierarch has devoted himself to the service of the Great Church of Christ in Constantinople and Orthodox Christians throughout the world. This is the longest patriarchal ministry in the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

On this occasion, as I offer my prayers of thanksgiving to God, I extend, from the depths of my heart, both personally and on behalf of the entire body of the local Orthodox Church of…