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Pan-Orthodox meeting on 'Ukrainian issue' to be held in Amman on Feb 26

Moscow, February 14, Interfax - A meeting between the heads and representatives of the Orthodox churches to discuss the situation involving the creation of the new church of Ukraine (OCU) will be held in Amman on February 26, Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations for inter-Orthodox Relations, told Interfax.

When asked who will attend this meeting, the priest said "there is currently no full information."

The Russian Orthodox Church earlier said Patriarch Kirill was ready to attend the meeting in Jordan. It was reported on Friday that Serbian Patriarch Irinej would attend and that the Romanian and Polish Orthodox Churches would send their delegates to the meeting in Jordan.

The proposal to hold a meeting of the local Churches in Amman was made by Patriarch Theophilus of Jerusalem in Moscow on November 21, 2019.

While welcoming this initiative, the Russian Orthodox Church, at the same time, said that "many efforts and more than one meeting may be needed to achieve visible results," Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, Deputy Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, recently told Interfax.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine was created in December 2018 by the Constantinople Patriarchate with support from then-administration of Ukraine. None of the local Orthodox churches except for Constantinople recognized it for many months. However, some bishops of the Greek Church and the Alexandria Patriarchate, which cares for the Orthodox communities of Africa, recognized it last fall.

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