The spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians and the president of Poland’s Catholic bishops’ conference prayed together for peace in Ukraine on Tuesday.
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I prayed alongside Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki in the Polish capital Warsaw on 29 March.
The common prayer came on the second day of Patriarch Bartholomew’s three-day visit to Poland. It was the day received more than 2.3 million people fled the war in Ukraine on March 28.
Bartholomew I is visiting the country at the invitation of Poland’s President Andrzej Duda to offer his blessing to Ukrainian refugees, who are predominantly Orthodox Christians.
A private meeting between Gądecki and Bartholomew I took place at the House of the Archbishops of Warsaw, where they were welcomed by Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz of Warsaw.