His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia meets with the Trans-Caucasian Muslim leader, Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshuqur Pasha-zade

HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH ALEXY II OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA MEETS WITH THE TRANS-CAUCASIAN MUSLIM LEADER, SHEIKH-UL-ISLAM ALLAHSHUQUR PASHA-ZADE

Sheikh-ul-Islam Alalhshuqur Pasha-Zade, head of the Muslim Board for the Caucasus and leader of the Muslims in Transcaucasus, was received on November 26, 2003, by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia at the Synodal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery.

The leader of the Muslims in Trans-Caucasus had a talk with the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church just before a quadripartite meeting devoted to a settlement of the Caucasus problems was to take place. Other participants in that meeting are His Holiness and Beatitude Iliya II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, and His Holiness Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy thanked the Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshuqur Pasha-zade for his willingness to cooperate within the quadripartite meeting and expressed hope that its work would contribute to a peaceful and equitable settlement of problems facing the peoples of the multi-ethnic Caucasus.

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His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Russia

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia Meets His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Patriarch-Catholicos of All Georgia