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“The clergy and parishioners who attended the liturgy, which was celebrated in Church Slavonic and Romanian, prayed together with the archbishop during the service,” realitatea.md wrote, according to the city’s report.
Metropolitan Vladimir will also preside over a liturgy in honor of Saint Spyridon on December 25.
It was not specified whether he would meet with Patriarch Kirill.
Let us note that recently more and more dioceses are leaving the Metropolitanate of Moldova (canonically affiliated to the Moscow Patriarchate) and joining the Metropolitanate of Bessarabia (canonically affiliated to the Romanian Patriarchate).
The rejection of the Russian Church by the Moldovan clergy received a boost against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and after Metropolitan Vladimir, in a letter to Patriarch Kirill, acknowledged the return of Moldovans to the Romanian Church. In the letter, Metropolitan Vladimir noted that the “Russian world” is incompatible with our national values and that the unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania will be achieved in a relatively short time.
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