certain clarifications, well, at the height of that conflict, all the bishops of our church from ukraine and the whole world came to rome for their annual synod i 'm afraid to imagine how it all looked from their own, you know, one. so it was, it was somehow so, you know, very providential, because when we , er, made the decision to convene the synod of bishops this year in rome, we had no idea what moment it would happen, a moment in the building of relations between ukraine and apostolic capital, er, for me, as the head of the church, it was simply salvation, uh, because always the one who criticizes and complains the most, was, was me, as a person, uh, and maybe someone had the impression that, well, uh , just uh, that one personality is always dissatisfied with something, you such a reputation, so here, a whole synod came here, and even at the moment when the papal synod on synodality was to begin in just a few weeks. that is, about a new way of building relationships in the church, to move away from such a command-administrative way, more collegial, joint, and we asked for an audience with the pope, it is very interesting that the pope g

communicate for two hours, and i, as the head of the church, was really very pleased, because i only presented our synod to the pope and gave each of the bishops the opportunity to stand up and speak, and our bishops spoke in ukrainian, english, portuguese, spanish in various languages. it is interesting that the pope himself corrected himself, to a certain extent, made us understand that those statements of his were unsuccessful, and in the end, listening to the voice of the bishops about the pain of ukraine, he himself added, he says, there must be another thing that hurts you, you must be doubting whose side the pope is on. i want to declare to you today that the pope is with you. that is, you see, this moral neutrality was absolutely clarified. these , perhaps, doubts and pain, ours, was, a little, a little, i would say, suppressed, but i say to him, father, very good, thank you, and now in front of us, let's demonstrate all this. is very interesting, but our voice is important. and he changes, changes the world's understanding of what is happening in ukraine, as shevchenko said, so that the whole world heard what was happening in ukraine,

well, at the height of that conflict, all the bishops of our church from ukraine and the whole world came to rome for their annual synod. i'm afraid to imagine how? it all looked from its own , you know, such a secular position, it was somehow so , you know, very providential, because when we made the decision to convene the synod of bishops this year precisely in rome, we had no idea what moment it would happen, the moment in building relations between ukraine and the apostolic church the capital, uh, for me, as for the head of the church. it was simply a salvation, ugh, because always the person who criticizes and complains the most was me, as a person. uh, and maybe someone had the impression that, well, uh, just, uh, that one personality is always dissatisfied with something. you have such a reputation, yes, here, here, ugh, a whole synod came, and even at the moment when it was supposed to start literally in a few weeks. the papal synod on synodality, that is, on a new way of building relationships in the church, moving away from some such command-administrative way, more collegial, joint, and we asked for an audi

that this decision was very special, i think, both on the part of our orthodox brothers and our synod of bishops, we somehow felt that the moment had come, theologically speaking. we call it kairos, this wave that the lord god gave us, we have been waiting for it, maybe for centuries, er, our people, our predecessors, er, we also felt that if we had a year or six months sooner this done, it would have been too soon, uh, if it had been six months later, it would have been too late, we did it very, very on time, and really, er... we really wanted to feel how our people would react, our believing people in ukraine, in particular, er, you know what the reaction was of unity, of great joy, er, of all our parishes, only one parish in ukraine asked for permission to remain on the old calendar for a while longer, and this is one of our communities in the kharkiv region, uh, and so the whole church perceived it as something to... natural and for which our people are grateful to the church leaders who dared to undertake this reform, so thank god, we have christmas, christmas together, christmas, which is

of the synod. russian church, i definitely had to be the bishop of polotsk and glubovo, in 1997 there was heratoniahedral was headed by metropolitan felaret, the late the kingdom of heaven, eternal peace, i was at the beginning of the department, well, after that 22 years i was a bishop, it was a completely new period of life with new requirements, new impressions - a new form, type of activity, it was not an academy, of course, i had with students, lectures and teaching , and here, of course, there is already activity that is closer to the church environment, parishes, monasteries , i am grateful to god for bringing me here, i am grateful to the venerable efrasini polovskaya, who was also in moscow the day before, that’s what she says , immediately running forward, i will say that you cannot believe with us, this is the teaching of the church, but... at the same time, dreams can be from god, they can be from the impression of the day, or they can be from an evil force, from demons, but since it is difficult for us to determine which one it is was a dream, then he blesses not to accept any words at