His Holiness Patriarch Alexy meets hierarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church

On 22 May 2006, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia met with the hierarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitans Kyrill of Varna and Gavriil of Lovec.

Taking part in the meeting held in the Patriarch’s working residence in Chisty pereulok in Moscow were Archbishop Arseny of Istra, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Russia Ilian Vasilev and rector of the Bulgarian representation church in Moscow Archimandrite Ignaty (Karagyozov.)

The participants discussed several topics, including the church and church-state relations between Bulgaria and Russia.