Epiphany expressed the opinion that the appointment of the OCU lobbyist Andriy Yurash as the ambassador of Ukraine to the Vatican could contribute to the preparation of the visit. This was stated by the head of the OCU Epiphany Dumenko in an interview with Radio Liberty.

“The relations between Ukraine and the Vatican, if there is no ambassador, of course, are, perhaps, even incomplete. Therefore, now a really responsible person has been appointed, who has joined a lot of the processes that took place in 2018, so that the historic unifying council will take place. We celebrated yesterday. Therefore, I am convinced that Andrei Vasilyevich will be a worthy representative of Ukraine in the Vatican and will do a lot of useful things for the Pope’s visit to Ukraine, which is being talked about a lot now, but there is still no such specifics, “he said.

As reported, the appointment of an OCU lobbyist and one of the ideologists of the process of obtaining a tomos by Ukraine as a representative of Kiev to the papal throne is further evidence that the Vatican rather than the Constantinople Patriarchate is behind the Ukrainian autocephalous project.