Request to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in Macedonian

In a letter sent to Patriarch Bartholomew, the Slav-speaking “RAINBOW” party asked for his permission to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in Macedonian in the parishes belonging to the “minority of ethnic Macedonians in Greece”. This is in the context of the Prespa Agreement and the official recognition of the “Macedonian language”. The letter specified that historically, “Metropolitans in Northern Greece were the first to destroy old Macedonian Orthodox churches which