Showing posts with label Metropolitan Sawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metropolitan Sawa. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Ecumenical Patriarch to Visit Refugees in Poland
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has been invited by Polish President His Excellency Andrzej Duda to visit Poland in order to bless,console and strengthen the Ukrainian refugees who have fled there from the Russian invasion of their country,according to a Communique issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.Patriarch Bartholomew was,at the same time,also invited to Poland by His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland,primate of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church (informally called the Orthodox Church of Poland).Accompanying Patriarch Bartholomew will be His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon and the Very Reverend Grand Syncellus Iakovos Krochak.He will visit refugees staying in temporary shelters.*
The Holy Synod of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church on 22 March 2022 called for the Russian Federation authorities,headed by President Vladimir Putin,to cease hostilities against Ukraine,which it considers wicked and incomprehensible,according to the statement it issued.*
The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church was granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1924.It has 278 parishes,including a diocese in Brazil,and had 504,400 members as of 2016.*
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Bright Week Journey:Patriarch Bartholomew in Poland
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople visited Poland during Bright Week 2019, exercising his ministry in the light of the risen Lord Jesus Christ.On 2 May, Patriarch Bartholomew led the March of the Living,a three kilometer walk between Birkenau and the Auschwitz Museum in Poland,sites of Nazi atrocities against Jews,Poles and other groups despised by Adolph Hitler.Along with His All-Holiness, Speaker of the Greek Parliament Nikolaos Voutsis, Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila,US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman,His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France and other dignitaries preceded several Jewish and Polish youth groups on the Holocaust Remembrance Day event, also called "Reflect and Learn".*
Patriarch Bartholomew addressed a crowd of 10,000, observing that the names of these concentration camps:
encapsulate what humankind when motivated by pure hatred, can do to desacralise and deface the dignity of the human person,who is created in the image of God.*
On 3 May, Patriarch Bartholomew was received by His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland.After a doxology service,a service of thanksgiving in the university chapel of Sts.Cyril and Methodius,His Beatitude thanked God for the opportunity to meet with Patriarch Bartholomew and wished him a fruitful journey.
For his part, His All-Holiness characterised the state of relations between their two Churches as being excellent.
Then the two spiritual leaders proceeded to the new Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, the cornerstone of which Patriarch Bartholomew had laid in 2015.
Patriarch Bartholomew addressed a crowd of 10,000, observing that the names of these concentration camps:
encapsulate what humankind when motivated by pure hatred, can do to desacralise and deface the dignity of the human person,who is created in the image of God.*
On 3 May, Patriarch Bartholomew was received by His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland.After a doxology service,a service of thanksgiving in the university chapel of Sts.Cyril and Methodius,His Beatitude thanked God for the opportunity to meet with Patriarch Bartholomew and wished him a fruitful journey.
For his part, His All-Holiness characterised the state of relations between their two Churches as being excellent.
Then the two spiritual leaders proceeded to the new Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, the cornerstone of which Patriarch Bartholomew had laid in 2015.
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