Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna, Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk paid a visit to Member of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Austria, Exarch of Hungary and Central Europe Arsenios
During the meeting the issue of the unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy was discussed. Ihor Prokopchuk noted that this unity will be forced and promoted by a positive decision of the Mother Church on Autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church raised in the recent Appeal of Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs supported by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The interlocutors also discussed the development of the Ukrainian Orthodox parish in Vienna and ways to promote its educational and cultural activities.