June 26, 2019 – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow
Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), who is in
Greece with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and
All Russia, visited the office of the Holy Synod of the Greece Orthodox
Church at Petraki Monastery in Athens.
In a break between the
sessions of the Holy Synod, the DECR chairman was received by the
Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Hieronymus,
Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. During their talk, they dealt with
issues concerning the bilateral relations between the Russian and Greek
Orthodox Churches.
They were joined in their talk by Metropolitan
Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki, Metropolitan David of Grevena;
Archimandrite Ignatios (Sotiriadis), the Holy Synod of the Greek
Orthodox Church secretary for inter-Orthodox relations; Archpriest Igor
Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations, and Hieromonk
Gregory (Sokolov), DECR secretariat for inter-Orthodox relations.
In memory of the meeting, Metropolitan Hilarion presented His Beatitude Hieronymus with an icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
After
the talk, which was held in a warm and cordial atmosphere, Metropolitan
Hilarion briefly greeted all the members of the Holy Synod of the Greek
Orthodox Church.
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