The hierarchs also emphasized that they haven’t seen the results of the commission that examined the territory of the Lavra and which concluded that the Church has somehow violated the terms of their lease to use the Lavra, which is officially a state-owned museum.
Fr. Iulian, who hailed from Botoșani in northeastern Romania and spent 46 years on the Holy Mountain, reposed in the Lord at the age of 97 on Friday, March 10.
As it has done several times over the past few years, the Albanian Orthodox Church is again urgently calling for a pan-Orthodox council to address issues of Church unity.
The Metropolitan has been serving as a hierarch for 44 years. May God grant His Beatitude a full and speedy recovery!
The official representative of the Orthodox Church in America in Moscow was awarded by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill last week.