(Vatican Radio) In ten daysʼ time, a historic meeting of leaders of the worldʼs Orthodox Churches is due to begin on the Greek island of Crete. More than 350 bishops are expected to participate in the ʽHoly and Great Council of the Orthodox Churchʼ which will be chaired by the spiritual leader of the Orthodox world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.
Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate,
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at
the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-in-Bolshaya-Ordynka
in Moscow.
In his sermon after the service,
Metropolitan Hilarion said in particular, “Today we are facing the
prospect of convocation of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox
Church.













