The visit of the head of the Church of Constantinople, Patriarch Bartholomew, provides for several days of stay and participation in state and church events, divine services, and meetings with believers. The event will “have a church-state character,” said the head of the OCU, “metropolitan” Epiphany, in an interview on Pryamyi.

He said that at the end of May they would set up an organizing committee to prepare the visit of the head of Phanar to Ukraine, and then the details of his visit would become known.

“We plan to set up an organizing committee at the end of May to prepare the visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch to Ukraine. Then the details will already be known. The visit includes several days of stay. Not only the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the restoration of Ukraine’s independence, but also participation in divine services, meeting and communication with the faithful. The program will be rich,” promises Dumenko.