The Primate of the Georgian Orthodox Church Received a Delegation from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the Georgian Patriarchate

An official delegation from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church met with His Holiness and Beatitude Shio III, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, as part of a visit timed to coincide with the state-level celebration of the 1,700thth anniversary of the adoption of Christianity in Georgia at the state level. This was reported by the Information and Education Department of the UOC .

The delegation, which arrived at the invitation of the Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, held talks at the Patriarchate. The group included Metropolitan Sergiy of Ternopil and Kremenets, Archbishop Job of Shumsk, as well as Archpriest Vasily Voznyuk and Deacon Maxim Savchuk.

During the meeting, the Patriarch expressed his deep respect for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and conveyed words of support to the Ukrainian people. The head of the Georgian Orthodox Church emphasized that Georgian believers sincerely empathize with Ukrainians, drawing on their own historical experience, and assured them of his prayerful support. The parties exchanged commemorative gifts as a sign of ecclesial unity.

It should be recalled that the day before, on October 11, 2026, representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church participated in a joint celebration of the Divine Liturgy together with hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Tbilisi.