Hundreds of supporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have now gathered in the government quarter. The road to the Kiev hotel is closed. The police are on duty along Hrushevsky Street. Reported by Pavlovsky News.

The police take away posters from believers at the entrance to the Mariinsky Park, writes UOJ.

At 10 am, a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople laid flowers at the Wall of Remembrance of the Dead near the St. Michael’s Monastery. Then the service began in the monastery itself.

It is noteworthy that of the representatives of the political elite, only Viktor Yushchenko and the Greek Ambassador to Ukraine attended the first divine service of Bartholomew at the Mikhailovsky Cathedral.

On August 22, the divine service of Bartholomew is planned with the OCU in the St. Sophia Cathedral.