Patriarch Kirill hopes to turn Kiev in a center of Orthodox pilgrimage
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia says he is ready to discuss a possibility of making Kiev a center of Orthodox pilgrimage with Ukrainian authorities during his visit to the country, reportsInterfax-Religion.
"We should restore traditions of Orthodox pilgrimage and Kiev should become one of its world centers," the Ukrainian Church website has cited the Patriarch as saying.
According to him, today millions of Russian tourists "plough Spain, Great Britain, Italy, and France and get acquainted with culture and history of these countries, while Kiev and other centers of our Church and our culture are not included in the list of popular routes."
Besides, Patriarch Kirill is ready to discuss with Ukrainian leaders other important for Ukrainian believers questions such as "problem of gaining a status of legal entity for our Church, questions of giving back Church property expropriated by atheistic regime, teaching Orthodox disciplines in higher educational establishments and schools, helping the Church in its mission of social service at legislative level."
"These questions, to greater or lesser extent, are actual for the entire post-Soviet space, and many countries have experience of overcoming them, and I'd to discuss it as well," Patriarch Kirill said.
The Primate of the Russian Church is to visit Ukraine from July 27 to August 5.
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