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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, Major Archbishop (Patriarch) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,\u00a0has been on tour visiting the Eparchy and associated communities in numerous countries over the past 3 years. During the Patriarchal visit to Australia in September, the Patriarch finally arrived in Melbourne. As part of the tour, a banquet was held in his honour<\/a> at Melrose Reception in Tullamarine with over 450 people in attendance.<\/p>\n

Members of Verchovyna\u2019s Elementary group greeted the Patriarch with a traditional Ukrainian \u201cPryvit\u201d –\u00a0a \u201cWelcome\u201d dance and ceremony which concludes with the ritual of offering bread and salt on embroidered cloth to honoured guests. The bread represents the offer of the host\u2019s hospitality and the salt symbolizes eternal friendship (as salt never sours or expires).<\/p>\n

Verchovyna\u2019s eldest dancers performed a vibrant, colourful and uplifting dance from the Volyn region of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Members of Verchovyna\u2019s Elementary group greeted His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, with a traditional Ukrainian \u201cPryvit\u201d and the eldest dancers performed an uplifting dance, at a banquet held in his honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-3","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}