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Georgian Parish under UOC-KP Orthodox Jurisdiction Created in Kyiv

28.10.2005, [00:39] // UOC-KP //

Kyiv – Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP), has ordained Georgian Deacon Mykola Inasaridze to the priesthood. Fr. Inasaridze will serve at the newly-formed Georgian parish in Kyiv under the jurisdiction of the UOC-KP. The ordination was conducted during a solemn Liturgy dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Patriarch Filaret’s enthronement, held at St Volodymyr’s Church on 23 October 2005.

Rati Samkurashvili, a member of the Security Department of the Georgian Parliament and a national deputy of Georgia, Beka Mindiashvili, the Georgian deputy ombudsman, and Gregory Katamadze, Georgian ambassador to Ukraine, were present at the Liturgy.

In his welcoming speech, the Georgian ambassador noted that Georgia went on “a thorny path” before its Orthodox church was recognized as autocephalous one, and so, he said, it supports the desire of the Ukrainian Orthodox to have their own national autocephalous church.