The Government handed over premises in Vilnius to the Orthodox Christians of Constantinople for 10 years – MadeinVilnius.lt

At a meeting on Friday, the government handed over the premises in Vilnius to the Orthodox of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

As the Ministry of Culture indicated to BNS, the administrative space of more than 300 square meters in Antakalni was handed over to the religious community for ten years. meter building and auxiliary structures.

These premises have been empty and unused for some time now.

The Exarchate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople was officially established in Lithuania in February this year. This made it possible to receive almost 80,000 from the state a little later in the same month. EUR support.

The community itself began to be created last March after the visit of Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to Lithuania.

The emergence of a new Orthodox community began to be sought after a conflict arose between several clergymen and the Orthodox Archdiocese of Lithuania. The latter said that they had committed canonical crimes and were therefore removed from the priesthood.

However, Constantinople stated that this was not due to violations of church rules, but due to the position on the issue of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and therefore returned them to the caste.

Author Augustas Stankevičius

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