Seoul: Ambassador Grbić visited the Korean Orthodox Metropolitanate

28. Mar 2022.
Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Korea Nemanja Grbić visited the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul and talked with Metropolitan Ambrosios Zografos, Head of the Korean Orthodox Metropolitanate, which is under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Metropolitan Zografos presented the history of activities and current missionary work of the Korean Orthodox Metropolitanate and the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul, which was built in 1968 in the Byzantine style and which gathers about 10,000 Orthodox believers in Korea, of which about 4,000 are Koreans, and about 6,000 are members of the majority Orthodox peoples.

Iconostasis, frescoes, relics and mosaics of the St. Nicholas Cathedral are richly decorated, and the cathedral has an extensive library of church books, as well as a museum that displays faithful copies of art objects and sculptures from ancient Greece.

As there are no books originating from Serbia in the considerable church library, Ambassador Grbić suggested that books on the Serbian religious heritage be exhibited in it, which Metropolitan Zografos gladly accepted.