"On March 31, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine began its operations in Slovenia," the embassy said.
As noted, the diplomatic service staff "visited the first Holy Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, which was served in the temple of St. Urgh.
Earlier, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, assured the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onuphrius, that he instructed his assistants to respond to cases of the seizure of churches by PCT supporters.
On January 6, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople handed over to Ukraine Tomos about the autocephaly of the PCU.
As political scientist Alexander Asafov noted, based on the published text of a tomos, representatives of the TCU "absolutely definitely cannot open foreign parishes."