His Grace patriarchal auxiliary bishop Varlaam of Ploiești welcomed Rev. Hugh Wybrew, former chaplain of the Anglican Church in Bucharest between 1971 and 1973, for an audience at the Palace of the Patriarchate on Wednesday, May 1.
Viorel Coman, patriarchal adviser at the Department for inter-church and inter-religious relations of the Patriarchal Administration, and Rev. Nevsky Everett, the current parish priest of the Anglican community in Romania’s capital, attended the meeting.
Bishop Varlaam provided an overview of the religious transformation in Romanian society in the decades following the communist regime’s downfall. He emphasised the positive historical and contemporary relations between the Anglican Church and the Romanian Orthodox Church.
A connoisseur of the Romanian language, Reverend Hugh Wybrew recalled a sequence of events during his sojourn in our country in the early 1970s.
The Anglican priest also pointed to the vibrant presence of Orthodoxy in general and Romanian Orthodoxy, in particular, in Great Britain today.
Anglican priest Hugh Wybrew, former parish priest of the Anglican Church in Bucharest, is visiting Romania for one week.
Photography courtesy of Lumina Newspaper / Luigi Ivanciu
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