Priests and bishops of the Georgian Orthodox Church perceive Russia as an aggressor power so they understand the Ukrainian situation of Church autocephaly and Russian pressure better than other Local Churches.
That’s according to a Russian Orthodox Church noon-staff cleric, Archimandrite Kirill Hovorun, who spoke with Detector.Ua, according to ReligionPravda.
The theologian recalled one of his encounters in Tbilisi, which, in his opinion, testifies to the attitude of the Georgian clergy to Ukraine in general.
“On my first day in Tbilisi, I went for a walk. And then someone stopped me and said he knew who I was. This was a young man, a student of the Tbilisi Theological Academy. He said: ‘I like everything you write about the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. I fully support the creation of this Church and the movement in this direction.’ I think he expresses the position of many in the Georgian Orthodox Church,” said Kyrylo Hovorun.
It should be reminded, earlier a Georgian expert wrote that Russian clerics don’t trust the Georgian patriarch anymore because he could decide to recognize the OCU.
