Delegations of the Local Churches greeted His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr on his Name Day and the 20th anniversary of his Primatial ministry

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On July 27, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine at his residence in the monastery of Saint Panteleimon of Theophany received the delegations of the Local Orthodox Churches, who came to Ukraine to participate in the celebrations on the 20th anniversary of Primatial ministry of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr at the Kyivan Throne. Head of the delegation of the Constantinople Patriarchate Metropolitan Emmanuel of France conveyed fraternal greetings and prayerful good wishes of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Metropolitan Emmanuel marked that the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Church of Constantinople are impressed by labors and deeds that His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr performs for many years as head of the Ukrainian Church, and stressed that relations between Kyiv and Constantinople continued to be tight and inseparable.