During the Common
Service between His Most Divine All Holiness, Bartholomew I, Archbishop of
Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch and His Beatitude Ieronymos
II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, in the Church of the Acheiropoietos,
Thessaloniki, on Saturday 19 October 2019, became the first official
commemoration of His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
This was expected following the recognition of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
(OCU) by the Church of Greece (COG), which took place during the Council of
Bishops of the Church of Greece on Saturday 12 October 2019.
