Official visit of the Serbian Patriarch - day two , Αrchbishop of Canterbury
Friday 14th October 2016, The official visit of His Holiness Irinej, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury continued today at Lambeth Palace.
The visit
has been an occasion of significant conversation and warm fellowship
between them and their delegations, which signals a renewal of the
longstanding and close relationship between the Church of England and
the Serbian Orthodox Church.
The two delegations reflected
together among other things, on the spiritual life of our churches; our
work with young people, the poor and refugees; the problems of modern
society; the renewal of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the household as
the place of spiritual nurture and devotion, following the collapse of
communism.
His
Grace and His Holiness discussed tangible ways of expressing the
renewal of relationships in better communications and exchange of people
in the areas in which both churches are called by God to serve their
people. Progress will be determined but measured.
His Holiness
will be going to St Paul’s Cathedral later today to preach at a service
of Evensong, in celebration of the centenary of the sermon of St Nicolai
Velimirovic in St Paul’s in the darkest days of the First World War.
From there His Holiness will continue his visit with engagements with the Serbian Orthodox Church in Britain.
