The archbishop — and serving president of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) — is also the apostolic administrator of the Lithuanian military.
Before visiting Ukraine, he was in Przemyśl, Poland, nine miles from Ukraine’s western border, for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s synod of bishops July 7-15.
The sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church of the Byzantine rite currently has around 51 bishops in its synod. They carry out pastoral service throughout the world, including in the U.S. and Ukraine.
As president of the CCEE, Grušas addressed the assembly.
“The battle that rages in Ukraine reminds us of the truth which we profess, that the reality that surrounds us is both visible and invisible,” he said. “It is so closely intertwined that we cannot always clearly separate these two realities.”
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