Ecumenical patriarch to visit UOC center

SOMERSET, N.J. - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit the Center of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and Diaspora, located in South Bound Brook and Franklin Township, N.J., on Monday, October 27.

The spiritual leader of the 3 million-member Orthodox Christian Church is scheduled to arrive via helicopter from New York City at 4:30 p.m. He will be welcomed by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church's chief bishop, Metropolitan Constantine, and other bishops of the Church.

The ecumenical patriarch will tour the center's grounds, which houses the historic Henry Fisher Manor. Built in 1688, the manor served as the residence of this American patriot and delegate to the Continental Congress. The tour will also include such points of interest as the St. Andrew Memorial Church, St. Andrew Cemetery, the crypt of the Church's first patriarch, the Memorial Church Museum, Archdiocesan Consistory and Library Complex, and St. Sophia Seminary.

The historic visit to the center will include the celebration of a Moleben Doxology at 5:30 p.m. on the front portico of the St. Andrew Memorial Church, at which the patriarch will preside and address the faithful.

The prayer service will be followed by a dinner scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. in the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 135 Davidson Ave. in Somerset.

Thousands, among them Church and civil dignitaries, are expected to participate in this historic event.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 19, 1997, No. 42, Vol. LXV

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