Ecumenical Patriarch: "Never in its history has the Ecumenical Throne…remained idle when the Orthodox people appealed to it”
“The invitation to ‘keep our unity in Eucharistic communion’ from His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem is essentially to His Beatitude the Patriarch of Moscow and not to the entire ecclesiastical body of Orthodoxy,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew pointed out in his address after the Divine Liturgy, at which he presided in Chorostasia today, January 5, the Sunday Before the Festival of Lights, at the Patriarchal Church. A delegation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church led by Metropolitan Makarios of Lviv attended, on the occasion of the one-year mark since the signing and granting of the Tomos of Autocephaly of the Church of Ukraine.