Working Group

Meeting of the Working Group in Kiev in 2018 (photo: rev. Ihor Shaban)

In order to implement the project responsibly, the Inter-Church Working Group was established, which initially consisted of representatives of the Churches associated in Polish Ecumenical Council and Evangelical Churches in Germany. Currently, the Group is composed of representatives of Evangelical Churches, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic Churches from four countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Germany and Poland.

Current composition of the Working Group:

Belarus

• Nikolai Matrunshik (Orthodox Church in Belarus)
• Rev. Vitali Burko (Roman Catholic Church in Belarus)
• Rev. Vladimir Tatarnikov (Evangelical Church in Belarus)

Germany

• Dr. Wolfram Langpape (Protestant Church in Germany – EKD)
• Dr. Markus Grimm (Roman Catholic Church in Germany)

Poland

• Rev. Prof. Zygfryd Glaeser (Roman Catholic Church in Poland)
• Rev. Dr. Łukasz Leonkiewicz (Orthodox Church in Poland)
• Rev. Dr. Grzegorz Giemza (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, director of the Polish Ecumenical Council)
• Rev. Michał Dmitruk (office of the Polish Ecumenical Council)

Ukraine

• Rev. Dr. Ihor Shaban (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
• Bp. Pavlo Shvarts (German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine)
• Prof. Vladimir Bureha (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
• Rev. Piotr Blog (Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine)