Metropolitan Kirill meets the Holy See secretary for relations with the states Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo

On 28 October 2005, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, met the Holy See secretary for relations with the states Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo at the DECR premises. The Archbishop was on a working visit to Moscow.

Discussed was cooperation between the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches in the sphere of settling international problems, above all through dialogue with the institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe.

Taking part in the meeting were representative of the Holy See in the Russian Federation Archbishop Antonio Mennini, DECR MP deputy chairman archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, counsellor of the Second section of the Vatican State Secretariat Monsignor Julio Murat, DECR secretary for interchristian relations Rev. Igor Vyzhanov, secretary of the Holy See representation in Moscow Ante Jozich and a staff member of the DECR Secretariat for interchristian relations Alexei V.Dolgov.