Metropolitan Kirill arrives in China as a member of the official delegation accompanying the President

On 21 March 2006, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations arrived in Beijing as a member of the official delegation of the RF President V.V.Putin. The head of the Russian state is visiting the People’s Republic of China at the invitation of the PRC Chairman Hu Jintao to take part in the official opening ceremony of the Year of Russia in China.

On March 22, the commemoration day of the ‘The Word Became Flesh’ Icon of the Mother of God, Metropolitan Kirill celebrated a prayer service in the former St.Innocent church on the territory of the Russian Embassy in Beijing.