The Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos during the meeting on Thassos referred with warm words to the Patriarch of Constantinople, but also to the presence of the “Metropolitan” of the OCU, noting: “Who in the whole world, would not envy such a meeting where the Patriarch of our nation and the faithful people of God preside.”

This was reported by orthodoxtimes.

He referred “to the message of unity that is sent to the entire Orthodox world by the joint presence in Thassos of himself, the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Metropolitan of Kyiv”.