Filaret meets with representatives of Patriarch Bartholomew in Kiev

On December 15, in Kiev the head of the Kiev Patriarchate Filaret met with representatives of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, President of the Consistory of the of the UOC in the US, Bishop Daniel (Zelinsky) of Pamphilon and Bishop Hilarion (Rudyk) of the UOC in Canada, writes the UOC-KP press service.

As reported, the participants of the meeting discussed issues "of mutual interest".

Earlier, representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate had initiated negotiations with the Russian Orthodox Church resulted in the appeal of "Patriarch" Filaret to the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church with a proposal to begin the process of overcoming the schism in the Orthodoxy of Ukraine.

The second letter of Filaret was also published, in which the head of the schismatics asked the ROC for autocephaly, but not for the Kiev Patriarchate, but for the UOC.

Immediately afterwards, Filaret gave a press conference, in which he stated that there had been no repentance.

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