On July 27, the head of the OCU Epiphany Dumenko met with representatives of the Cypriot Orthodox Church and the Alexandrian Patriarchate, who arrived to celebrate the 1033th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus, the OCU website reports. Representatives of the Greek Church did not attend.

Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Cyrene came from the Cypriot Orthodox Church, and from the Alexandrian Patriarchate, Patriarchal Vicar Bishop Theodore of Babylon and Archimandrite George.