The Odessa diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has joined the flash mob “Bartholomew, We Didn’t Call You,” the UOJ reports.

The video was posted on the diocese’s YouTube channel on Thursday, August 12.

“We, the Orthodox cities of Odessa, are located here, on a historical site – the famous Potemkin Stairs. To our right is Istanbul Park, to our left is the wonderful Greek Park. And we, the Orthodox, ask you not to come here to our land, because in connection with your unreasonable decisions you sowed enmity, hatred, people shed tears on our land.

Therefore, we ask you, if you call yourself the father of peace, to keep the peace in our country by staying at home. Patriarch Bartholomew, we are not waiting for you! ” – the believers of the Odessa diocese turned to the head of the Phanar.

The diocese called on all caring believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to join the all-Ukrainian flash mob.