Metropolitan Kirill Receives Archbishop Antonio Mennini of Ferento

METROPOLITAN KIRILL RECEIVES ARCHBISHOP ANTONIO MENNINI OF FERENTO

On 10 November 2003 Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, receives Archbishop Antonio Mennini of Ferento, representatives of the Holy See in the Russian Federation. The meeting took place on the initiative if Archbishop Mennini. Discussed at the meeting were current problems of the Orthodox-Catholic relations. The sides expressed their willingness to continue the process of negotiations for the betterment of the situation in the relations between the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches.

Also taking part in the meeting was Priest Ional Lapidus, a staff member of the DECR MP Secretariat for interChristian relations.

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Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate