Metropolitan Kirill meets with Latvian Ambassador Andris Teikmanis

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, met on December 16 with the Latvian Ambassador to Russia, Mr. Andris Teikmanis.

They discussed relations between the Latvian Orthodox Church and the state and her social service. They also considered various problems of concern for both Russian and Latvian societies and the questions involved in preparations for the visit to be made by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia to Latvia next. year.

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