The abbot of the Athonite Vatopedi Monastery was hospitalized in Kyiv

Archimandrite Ephrem, the hegumen of the Athonite Vatopedi Monastery, was hospitalized in a Kyiv clinic following a heart attack that occurred on Friday afternoon, February 1st. Archimandrite Ephrem is in Ukraine with the Constantinople Patriarchate delegation. Patriarch Bartholomew appointed him to be part of it for the enthronement of Metropolitan Epifaniy, the primate of the new autocephalous Ukrainian Church. After his flight from Istanbul to Kyiv, Archimandrite Ephrem felt a