On October 15, Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira asked Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens to immediately convene the Assembly of Bishops in Greece in order to consider the Ukrainian question. Among other things, he mentioned that the lifting of the excommunication affecting Filaret, the former Metropolitan of Kyiv, did not follow the regular procedure at the Synodal Court of Constantinople. And also that it was advisable to prevent a schism between Greek